Speech, After All, Is In Some Measure

Whoever Wants To Know The Heart And Mind Of America Had Better Learn Baseball, The Rules And Realities Of The Game - And Do It By Watching First Some High School Or Small-town Teams.

Baseball Is A Kind Of Collective Chess With Arms And Legs In Full Play Under Sunlight.

In Ordinary Speech The Words Perception And Sensation Tend To Be Used Interchangeably, But The Psychologist Distinguishes. Sensations Are The Items Of Consciousness--a Color, A Weight, A Texture--that We Tend To Think Of As Simple And Single. Perceptions Are Complex Affairs That Embrace Sensation Together With Other, Associated Or Revived Contents Of The Mind, Including Emotions.

A Man Who Has Both Feet Planted Firmly In The Air Can Be Safely Called A Liberal As Opposed To The Conservative, Who Has Both Feet Firmly Planted In His Mouth.

Americans Began By Loving Youth, And Now, Out Of Adult Self-pity, They Worship It.