Our Lamaze instructor . . . assured our class . . . that our cervix muscles would become "naturally numb" as they swelled and stre...tched, and deep breathing would turn the final explosions of pain into "manageable discomfort." This descriptions turned out to be as accurate as, say a steward advising passengers aboard the Titanic to prepare for a brisk but bracing swim.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He is the mediator in that only sense in which possibly any being can mediate between God and man,--that is, an instructor of man.... He teaches us how to become like God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So will my page be colored that I write? Being me, it will not be white.... But it will be a part of you, instructor. You are white-- yet a part of me, as I am a part of you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A person, seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity:... while the haughty Dogmatist, persuaded that he can erect a compleat system of Theology by the mere help of philosophy, disdains any further aid, and rejects this adventitious instructor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that Mr. Widner has,... and has already been doing for himself, my judgment is, that he reads the books for himself without an instructor. That is precisely the way I came to the law.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He could jazz up the map-reading class by having a full-size color photograph of Betty Grable in a bathing suit, with a co- ordina...te grid system laid over it. The instructor could point to different parts of her and say, "Give me the co-ordinates."... The Major could see every unit in the Army using his idea.... Hot dog!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
you in San Quentin, who wrote, "Being German my hero is Hitler,"... instead of "Sincerely yours," at the end of long, neat-scripted letters demolishing the pre-Raphaelites:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Goodbye, you who are, for me, the postmarks again... of shattered towns--Xenia, Burnt Cabins, Hornell-- their loneliness given away in poems, only their solitude kept.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »