It was a heavy burden on the conscience to know that while you sat in Music 101, some contemporary--as "worthy" of a college educa...tion as you were, but one who had been denied the opportunity because he was poor, or black, or both--was getting his head blown off in Vietnam. Many students believed that such inequity was wrong, but couldn't bring themselves to redress it personally by refusing the student deferment. It's a dreadful combination: to act for self-protection yet at the same time to loathe oneself for acting that way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am now quite lame, from scuffling, all my fingers stiffened by playing ball. Pretty business for a law student. Yes, pretty enou...gh; why not? Good exercise and great sport.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is... finally and inexorably being expressed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The roaring alongside he takes for granted, and that every so often the world is bound to shake.... He runs, he runs to the south, finical, awkward, in a state of controlled panic, a student of Blake.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did i...t become so easy?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We were soundly taught and the curriculum carried no hint that we were young women and not young men. We were not corrupted by hom...e economics or dressmaking or cookery or any such soft substitute for hard thinking. We were compelled to take sciences whether we liked them or not, and mathematics and Latin were emphasized and excellently administered. Each year the student body petitioned for a course in home economics, for in that day no girl thought it possible that she might not marry, and each year the faculty sternly refused to yield to the request.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his ...distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking for... perfection. Of course I refer to that mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives, Henry James.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »