He saw Mr. Lincoln but once; at the melancholy function called an Inaugural Ball. Of course he looked anxiously for a sign of char...acter. He saw a long, awkward figure; a plain, ploughed face; a mind, absent in part, and in part evidently worried by white kid gloves; features that expressed neither self-satisfaction nor any other familiar Americanism, but rather the same painful sense of becoming educated and of needing education that tormented a private secretary, above all a lack of apparent force. Any private secretary in the least fit for his business would have thought, as Adams did, that no man living needed so much education as the new President but that all the education he could get would not be enough.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The caged bird sings with a fearful trill... of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the wife of an executive would be a better wife had she been a secretary first. As a secretary, you learn to adjust to the bos...s's moods. Many marriages would be happier if the wife would do that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. Bok is giving the bird sanctuary as a tract of land at this place. He is dedicating it as a bird sanctuary and putting up thes...e bells to interest the birds in music.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It could not have come down to us so far, Through the interstices of things ajar... On the long bead chain of repeated birth, To be a bird while we are men on earth,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bird would cease and be as other birds But that he knows in singing not to sing.... The question that he frames in all but words Is what to make of a diminished thing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »