Resorts advertised for waitresses, specifying that they "must appear in short clothes or no engagement." Below a Gospel Guide colu...mn headed, "Where our Local Divines Will Hang Out Tomorrow," was an account of spirited gun play at the Bon Ton. In Jeff Winney's California Concert Hall, patrons "bucked the tiger" under the watchful eye of Kitty Crawhurst, popular "lady" gambler.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A part, a large part, of travelling is an engagement of the ego v. the world.... The world is hydra headed, as old as the rocks an...d as changing as the sea, enmeshed inextricably in its ways. The ego wants to arrive at places safely and on time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings... And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intell...ectual process. We should forcefully explain that our role is not to teach them to think as we do but rather to teach them, by example, the importance of taking a stance that is rooted in rigorous engagement with the full range of ideas about a topic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Two destitute lives. Two sickly bachelors, chaste though without vows, deprived of all daily affection, suffering all the torments... of poetic passion, but for the Idea--adventurers of the mind only. Two existences virtually devoid of external vicissitudes. For one, the breaking-off of an engagement, the final attack against the Church, and death at forty-two. For the other, still less: a few years' professorship, a long wandering solitude, madness at forty-four. Each produced in some fifteen years his difficult, seminal work, and attracted only in extremis, by scandal, the attention of a few contemporaries. This external nakedness, contrasting with so much inner pathos, renders these lives exemplary; two pure tensions. In them the action of the mythic powers perfectly reveals its slow movements of approach, of alternating emergence and eclipse. These two chaste men meditated much on love, on women, and on marriage. Nietzsche has certainly written less on these subjects than Kierkegaard, but his work is no less rich in brief, often brazenly contradictory judgments on these three themes. It is remarkable that Nietzsche's contradictions afford a faithful epitome of Kierkegaard's, which in their turn repeat those of St. Paul himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
pulling off the fat diamond engagement ring, pulling off the elopement wedding ring,... and holding them, clicking them in thumb and forefinger, the indent of twenty-five years, like a tiny rip leaving its mark....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work sa...ys be serious, be passionate, wake up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Competence in heterosexuality, or at least the appearance or pretense of such competence, is as much a public affair as a private ...one. Thus, going steady is a high school diploma in heterosexuality; engagement a BA; marriage an MA; and children a Ph.D.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She would love still, but she would never again be tender till her daughter should have repudiated her base,--her monstrous engage...ment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »