Fear Is A Huge Thing For Older

Mediocrity Is No Answer To Violence. In Fact, It Probably Invites Violence. At Least The Mediocre And The Violent Appear Together As In The Old Western Movies - The Ruffian Outlaw Band Shooting Up Main Street And The Little White Church With The Little White Schoolteacher Wringing Her Hands. To Cool Violence You Need Rhythm, Humor, Tempering; You Need Dance And Rhetoric. Not Therapeutic Understanding.

Not Just Any Talk Is Conversation; Not Any Talk Raises Consciousness. Good Conversation Has An Edge: It Opens Your Eyes To Something, Quickens Your Ears. And Good Conversation Reverberates: It Keeps On Talking In Your Mind Later In The Day; The Next Day, You Find Yourself Still Conversing With What Was Said. That Reverberation Afterward Is The Very Raising Of Consciousness; Your Mind's Been Moved. You Are At Another Level With Your Reflections.

Teachers Today Can't Take To A Child.

The Culture Is Going Into A Psychological Depression. We Are Concerned About Our Place In The World, About Being Competitive: Will My Children Have As Much As I Have? Will I Ever Own My Own Home? How Can I Pay For A New Car? Are Immigrants Taking Away My White World?

If There Were A God Of New York, It Would Be The Greek's Hermes, The Roman's Mercury. He Embodies New York Qualities: The Quick Exchange, The Fastness Of Language And Style, Craftiness, The Mixing Of People And Crossing Of Borders, Imagination.