It is cruel for you to leave your daughter, so full of hope and resolve, to suffer the humiliations of disfranchisement she alread...y feels so keenly, and which she will find more and more galling as she grows into the stronger and grander woman she is sure to be. If it were your son who for any cause was denied his right to have his opinion counted, you would compass sea and land to lift the ban from him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, ...but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Play permits the child to resolve in symbolic form unsolved problems of the past and to cope directly or symbolically with present... concerns. It is also his most significant tool for preparing himself for the future and its tasks.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater:... For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale; Resolve, by sines and tangents straight, If bread and butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock doth strike, by algebra.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It would be naive to think that peace and justice can be achieved easily. No set of rules or study of history will automatically r...esolve the problems.... However, with faith and perseverance,... complex problems in the past have been resolved in our search for justice and peace. They can be resolved in the future, provided, of course, that we can think of five new ways to measure the height of a tall building by using a barometer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The American novel tends to rest in contradictions and among extreme ranges of experience. When it attempts to resolve contradicti...ons, it does so in oblique, morally equivocal ways. As a general rule, it does so either in melodramatic actions or in pastoral idylls, although intermixed with both one may find the stirring instabilities of "American humor." These qualities constitute the uniqueness of that branch of the novelistic tradi tion which has flourished in this country. They help to account for the strong element of "romance" in the American "novel." By contrast, the English novel has followed a middle way. It is notable for its great practical sanity, its powerful, engrossing composition of wide ranges of experience into a moral centrality and equability of judgment. Oddity, distortion of personality, dislocations of normal life, recklessness of behavior--these the English novel has included. Yet the profound poetry of disorder we find in the American novel is missing, with rare exceptions, from the English.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As long as one sex was helped and one sex the helper, the system worked well. There was a balanced organizational structure.... Th...en one day the helpmate rebelled and wanted out of the subservient role. That movement caused nothing less than a total social revolution, one that will take generations to resolve.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the c...louds and the rain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »