“With the new weapons like the atom bomb, Russia would have it, too, and use it first. It is a very difficult world. But that trouble is imminent is obvious.” WorldFirstsUseDifficultTroubleWeaponsObviousRussiaBombsAtomsAtom Bomb Author:Karl Donitz
“Certainly the most obvious . . . example of the strictly infantile essence of America's all-conquering mentality greets our eyes daily, anywhere and everywhere, in the guise of the tabloid newspaper. The tabloid newspaper actually means to the typical American of the era what the Bible is popularly supposed to have meant to the typical Pilgrim Father: viz. a very present help in times of trouble, plus a means of keeping out of trouble via harmless, since vicarious, indulgence in the pomps and vanities of this wicked world.” WorldMeanHelpingEyeAmericaFatherTroubleExampleEssenceObviousNewspapersConquerVanityErasWickedPlusMentalityTypicalIndulgencePilgrimTabloidsGuiseInfantileVicariousTimes Of TroubleWicked World Author:e. e. cummings
“The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a threat to the welfare of minorities and women....The most obvious (and cynical) explanation for the switched positions is the switched situations. Protesting students became established professors and administrators. For outsiders, free speech is bread and butter; for insiders, indigestion. To the new academics, unregulated free speech spells trouble.” WantCertainLanguageSituationTroubleWorstPositionStudentsSpeechThreatObviousBreadRadicalCodeWelfareExplanationMinoritiesDelusionProfessorsSpellsCynicalFree SpeechOutsidersAdministratorsInsidersIndigestionBread And Butter Author:Russell Jacoby
“I thought if the climate was heating that CO2 was the only forcing, and it would be late in the century before we had trouble. Now that we know about the other half of the forcing, it's obvious that the trouble is coming much sooner.” IfsKnowsWould BeHalfTroubleCenturyLateClimateObviousOther HalfCo2Heating Author:Paul R. Ehrlich