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Nov. 18th, 2013
I remember that as I was writing a poem on “Snow” when I was eight, I said aloud, “I wish I could have the ability to write down the feelings I have now while I’m still little, because when I grow up I will know how to write, but I will have forgotten what being little feels like.”
-- Sylvia Plath, the Journals, the college years
-- Sylvia Plath, the Journals, the college years
1914 World War One
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Many of the progressives, judging themselves lovers of peace, had assumed they would be the wrong sorts of people to run a war. [President] Wilson told Josephus Daniels [Secretary of the Navy] in 1914, “Every reform we have won will be lost if we go into this war.” But to their surprise, and in some cases to their dismay, the progressives discovered that they were the ideal war administrators. The reformist temperament in American life has always hidden a coercive streak: if people won’t shape up voluntarily, they should be encouraged, even compelled, to do so.
-- H. W. Brands, “Traitor to His Class”
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Many of the progressives, judging themselves lovers of peace, had assumed they would be the wrong sorts of people to run a war. [President] Wilson told Josephus Daniels [Secretary of the Navy] in 1914, “Every reform we have won will be lost if we go into this war.” But to their surprise, and in some cases to their dismay, the progressives discovered that they were the ideal war administrators. The reformist temperament in American life has always hidden a coercive streak: if people won’t shape up voluntarily, they should be encouraged, even compelled, to do so.
-- H. W. Brands, “Traitor to His Class”
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