Unquestioned Answers, in News From The World: Stories & Essays, Paula Fox
Lest we turn into machines of certainty, I think we must sustain the suspicion that there's a lot we don't know.
Unquestioned Answers, in News From The World: Stories & Essays, Paula Fox On June 14, 1643, the English parliament ordered licensing of the press. All licensing authority was to be wielded by two archbishops who had the power to stop publication of any book "contrary to the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England."
John Milton, protesting the parliamentary order in his essay, Areopagitica, wrote, "(it) will be primely to the discouragement of all learning and the stop of truth, not only by exercising our abilities in what we know already, but by hindering and cropping the discovery that might be yet further made." The Stop of Truth: In the Night Kitchen, in News From the World: Stories & Essays, Paula Fox "I had a gift for finding the cheapest cars," he said.
"When you were little?" she asked. "I was ten. That's not little." "Oh," she said. He sensed her disbelief. Why did she bother to question him? If he turned to look at her now he knew there would be a certain plaintive sweetness in her face. The Broad Estates of Death, in News From the World: Stories & Essays, Paula Fox On my last day in New Orleans the following spring,* I went to a department store on Canal Street to buy a pair of stockings. On the first floor, between elevators, I saw two fountains next to each other. Above them, large signs read: White and colored.
*circa 1943 Way Down Yonder, in News From The World: Stories & Essays, Paula Fox Upon first seeing him years earlier, I had been astonished by the emotions his screen presence had brought to life in me. I had loved him, in a make-believe way — the way most emotion begins — for years.
That intensity of feeling prepared me, in some fashion, for love itself, its contrarieties, its defeats, its beauty. Franchot Tone at the Paramount, in News From the World: Stories & Essays, Paula Fox |
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