People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a... calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there's a satisfaction to the game that can't be duplicated. There's a harmony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him..., what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism. All this stuff you read about men yelling and screaming, beating against the bars, running spoons along them, guards rushing in with clubs--all that is for the big house. A good jail is one of the quietest places in the world.... Life in jail is in suspension.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I marched in with the men afoot; a gallant show they made as they marched up High Street to the depot. Lucy and Mother Webb remain...ed several hours until we left. I saw them watching me as I stood on the platform at the rear of the last car as long as they could see me. Their eyes swam. I kept my emotion under control enough not to melt into tears.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Give me Catholicism every time. Father Cheeryble with his thurible; Father Chatterjee with his liturgy. What fun they have with al...l their charades and conundrums! If it weren't for the Christianity they insist on mixing in with it, I'd be converted tomorrow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Doorman--a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These hearings take place on the eve of Mother's Day, a ritual observance which celebrates not so much mothers and motherhood as t...he American genius for wedding sentimentality and profitable commercialism.... But Mother's Day 1970 may usher in a new era, for it comes at a time when a very strong tide is running in behalf of the proposition that American women, while they may like candy and roses, really need basic rights still denied them. Rights not roses is the watchword for an increasing number of American women ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »