Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No politi...cian with half his senses, which a majority of politicians have, is likely to vote for its abolition, however. As a class, mothers are tender and loving, but as a voting bloc they would not hesitate for an instant to pull the seat out from under any Congressman who suggests that Mother is not entitled to a box of chocolates each year in the middle of May.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Perhaps that's what I feel, an outside and an inside and me in the middle, perhaps that's what I am, the thing that divides the wo...rld in two, on the one side the outside, on the other the inside, that can be as thin as foil, I'm neither one side nor the other, I'm in the middle, I'm the partition, I've two surfaces and no thickness, perhaps that's what I feel, myself vibrating, I'm the tympanum, on the one hand the mind, on the other the world, I don't belong to either.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The blood of Abraham, God's father of the chosen, still flows in the veins of Arab, Jew, and Christian, and too much of it has bee...n spilled in grasping for the inheritance of the revered patriarch in the Middle East. The spilled blood in the Holy Land still cries out to God--an anguished cry for peace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the middle years of childhood, it is more important to keep alive and glowing the interest in finding out and to support this i...nterest with skills and techniques related to the process of finding out than to specify any particular piece of subject matter as inviolate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... given a choice between hearing my daughter say "I'm pregnant" or "I used a condom," most mothers would get up in the middle of... the night and buy them herself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From a bed in this hotel Seargent S. Prentiss arose in the middle of the night and made a speech in defense of a bedbug that had b...itten him. It was heard by a mock jury and judge, and the bedbug was formally acquitted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest--usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation--...and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In many places the road was in that condition called repaired, having just been whittled into the required semicylindrical form wi...th the shovel and scraper, with all the softest inequalities in the middle, like a hog's back with the bristles up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the middle of the night, as indeed each time that we lay on the shore of a lake, we heard the voice of the loon, loud and disti...nct, from far over the lake. It is a very wild sound, quite in keeping with the place and the circumstances of the traveler, and very unlike the voice of a bird. I could lie awake for hours listening to it, it is so thrilling.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »