It is a life-and-death conflict between all those grand, universal, man-respecting principles which we call by the comprehensive t...erm democracy, and all those partial, person-respecting, class-favoring elements which we group together under that silver-slippered word aristocracy. If this war does not mean that, it means nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Billie Holiday's burned voice had as many shadows as lights,... a mournful candelabra against a sleek piano, the gardenia her signature under that ruined face. ... If you can't be free, be a mystery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let us say, then, that both the realist and the antirealist accept the results of scientific investigations as "true," on a par wi...th more homely truths.... And call this acceptance of scientific truths the "core position." What distinguishes realists from antirealists, then, is what they add onto this core position ... a third alternative emerges--and an attractive one at that. It is the core position itself, and all by itself.... Let me introduce the acronym NOA (pronounced as in "Noah"), for natural ontological attitude, and, henceforth, refer to the core position under that designation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Three factors--the belief that child care is female work, the failure of ex-husbands to support their children, and higher male wa...ges at work--have taken the economic rug from under that half of married women who divorce.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Under that wide hearth a nest of rattlers,... they'll knot a hundred together, had wintered and were coming awake. The warming rock flushed them out early.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This, it will be remembered, was the scene of Mrs. Rowlandson's capture, and of other events in the Indian wars, but from this Jul...y afternoon, and under that mild exterior, those times seemed as remote as the irruption of the Goths. They were the dark age of New England.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sitting in that dusky wilderness, under that dark mountain, by the bright river which was full of reflected light, still I heard t...he wood thrush sing, as if no higher civilization could be attained. By this time the night was upon us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That Time can never mar a lover's vows Under that woven changeless roof of boughs:... The singing shook him out of his new ease.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It took six weeks of debate in the Senate to get the Arms Embargo Law repealed--and we face other delays during the present sessio...n because most of the Members of the Congress are thinking in terms of next Autumn's election. However, that is one of the prices that we who live in democracies have to pay. It is, however, worth paying, if all of us can avoid the type of government under which the unfortunate population of Germany and Russia must exist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »