How he returned in such a ghastly condition, or why, I cannot say.

While my memory holds with relentless tenacity, as I cannot too often stress, to my wrongs, when it comes to my shames, it gestures and jokes and toys with chronology like a prestidigitator in the hope of distracting me from them.

I cannot express to you the depth of my conviction that, in our own and free world interest, we must co-operate with others to help these people achieve their legitimate ambitions, as expressed in their different multi-year plans.

I cannot ''

I cannot remember Dr. Gregory's reply, if, indeed, he made one.

Now I learn I cannot enter Germany.

In fact I cannot imagine myself condemning a man to the noose or the electric chair if I had to take, as an individual, the responsibility for his death.

Just as I know I would make a bad soldier even though I cannot sincerely call myself a pacifist, so too I would not be either a hangman by profession or, if I could avoid it, even a member of a hanging jury.

I know, that my son wants control and direction, but being autistic myself I cannot give full control or direction.

I submit that it cannot be dismissed simply by saying we are not facing the facts of life.

I suppose I am missing some elementary point but I honestly cannot see how two wrongs can make a right!!

Now, more than five years later, I cannot in any realistic sense be called a trained soldier.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

I cannot accomplish this if you will not help me ''.

I cannot think things out too well.

Why it was ever forgotten for even a moment I cannot say because it works perfectly for everyone, no matter whether he has short or long thigh-bone lengths!!

`` I guess I'll find out soon enough.

In the bedroom before the husband and wife find their way to the bed, the lights go on: `` In dull domestic radiance I watch her staring face, still blind, Start wincing in obedience To dirty waters, counters, pots and pans, Waiting below stairs, in her mind ''.

`` I suppose '', he muttered, `` I can sell the outfit for enough to send you home to your folks, once we find a settlement ''.

I want you to find Monsieur Prieur at once and give him this money for the boy's purchase.

When I question them as to what they mean by concepts like liberty and democracy, I find that they fall into two categories: the simpler ones who have simply accepted the shibboleths of their faith without analysis ; ;

That, I thought, is at least one thing I can find out when we meet.

Given a theological lead, I asked what he thinks about those who find a religious significance to his plays.

I remember one day when Mr. Hearst ( and I never knew why he liked me, either ) sent the Hetman a telegram: `` Please find some more reporters like that young man from Denver ''.

This viewpoint I find interesting, but it has never weighed on my soul.

The daughter, Lilly, was a very good friend of mine and I always had hopes that someday she and Meltzer would find each other.

I wanted to help so that we could find time to play.

For my part I find it difficult to conceive such a state of affairs.

To those of my readers who find many of my opinions morally, or politically, or sociologically antiquated ( and I have reason to know that there are some such ), I would like to say what I have already hinted, namely, that some of my opinions may indeed be subject to some discount on the simple ground that I am no longer young and therefore incapable of being youthful of mind.

Faced with a gesture like Di Bosis', I find usually that my sentiments are closer to those of my sculptor friend.

Recently I traveled the parkway from East Orange to Cape May and I found the most courteous group of men you will find anywhere.

I was surprised and sorry to find in your issue of March 4 a long and detailed attack upon a book that had not yet been published.

I think, too '', he said, his dark eyes mischievous, `` that you will find there some clue to the secret of the cathedrals about which you have spoken ''.

He pointed out the switch to me and for a moment I foolishly believed that he would let deed follow words.

At these words of sympathy and understanding, Harmony said generously, `` I don't mind setting here along with Gran while you go out and join in the games ''.

`` No, I remembered reading about you in the papers and that you lived here, and when it happened all I could think of was '' -- This time she stopped the rush of words herself.

He was looking out on the dark waters of the Lake when I came upon him and without wasting words I smacked him hard across the face.

The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.

So, I mustered my few words of the Manu dialect and said, `` We greet you in peace.

I am naive, they say, to make use of such words.

The Australian stopped trying to talk a pidgin I could understand, and spoke strange words from deep in his chest.

In his Message of December 2, 1862, he put his purpose and his policy in these words -- which I would call the Lincoln Law of Liberty-and-Union: `` In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free ''.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

I found myself becoming one of that group of people who, in Carlyle's words, `` are forever gazing into their own navels, anxiously asking ' Am I right, am I wrong ' ''??

I bethought me of the Lord's Prayer, and these words came to mind: `` Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven ''.

As I have said, words from Tennyson remain ever in my memory: `` That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before ''.

I could hear Alfred's voice a few words behind Meltzer's like a counterpoint, punctuated by sobs of sorrow and resignation.

And even hearing it in a concert hall surrounded by hundreds of people the words and the melody would make me a little colder and I would reach out for my husband's hand.

No one could be more devoted than he to the American Congress as an institution and more aware of its historical significance in the political history of the world, and I shall never forget his moving talks, delivered in simple yet eloquent words, upon the meaning of our jobs as Representatives in the operation of representative government and their importance in the context of today's assault upon popular government.

I think the answer is to be found in Prokofieff's own words: `` the clarity must be new, not old ''.

`` Not in the largest sense of the words '', I said.

One hebephrenic women confided to me, `` I live in a world of words '', as if, to her, words were fully concrete objects ; ;