[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its b...ureaucracies. They sought to create a society that places human values before materialistic ones, that has a little less head and a little more heart, that is dominated by self-interest and loves its neighbor more. And they were persuaded that group protest of a militant nature would advance those goals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The university is no longer a quiet place to teach and do scholarly work at a measured pace and contemplate the universe. It is bi...g, complex, demanding, competitive, bureaucratic, and chronically short of money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The structure of a jazz performance is, like that of the New York skyline, a tension of cross-purposes. In jazz at its characteris...tic best, each player seems to be--and has the sense of being--on his own. Each goes his own way, inventing rhythmic and melodic patterns which, superficially, seem to have as little relevance to one another as the United Nations building does to the Empire State. And yet the outcome is a dazzlingly precise creative unity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises very... well, considering we never controlled him much.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have scarcely felt greater pain in my life than on learning yesterday from Bob's letter, that you had failed to enter Harvard Un...iversity. And yet there is very little in it, if you will allow no feeling of discouragement to seize, and prey upon you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You are, or you are not the President of The National University Law School. If you are its President I wish to say to you that I ...have been passed through the curriculum of study of that school, and am entitled to, and demand my Diploma. If you are not its President then I ask you to take your name from its papers, and not hold out to the world to be what you are not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class th...at has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat.... They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious.... They are scum.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We may suspect that makers of jokes and smart remarks resemble poets at least in this, that they too would be excluded from Plato'...s Republic; for it is of the nature of Utopia and the Crystal Palace, as Dostoevsky said, that you can't stick your tongue out at it. A joke expresses tension, which it releases in laughter; it is a sort of permissible rebellion against things as they are--permissible, perhaps, because this rebellion is at the same time stoically resigned, it acknowledges that things are as they are, and that they will, after the moment of laughter, continue to be that way. That is why jokes concentrate on the most sensitive areas of human concern: sex, death, religion, and the most powerful institutions of society; and poems do the same.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »