Looking in on our academic circles was the usual quota of P.H.T.'s, the Putting Husband Throughs, young women who with high hopes ...work for years to earn money for their husbands' doctorates. Year after year they slave on, often forced to forgo bearing children until it is too late, sacrificing pleasures and recreation for the pot of gold at the end of the gaily alluring rainbow--a doctorate pinned on a man who has renounced the amenities and comforts of life, already the victim of occupational desiccation when he gets his medal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far... in saying at once that she is politically suspect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his co...ntemporaries.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new m...onth or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »