Sublime

He was the voice in England of this humane intoxication and expansion, this encouraging of anybody to be anything. His best books are a carnival of liberty,

Covering the House of Representatives for the New York Times that Tuesday, Anthony Lewis felt the mood shifting, and by evening, he understood the reason why. Sitting down at his typewriter, he wrote his lead: “President Johnson threw his full weight today behind the effort to pry the civil rights bill out of the House Rules Committee.” Pointing ou

He did not understand that French democracy became more democratic, not less, when it turned all France into one constituency which elected one member.

proselytizers

There was a certain positive originality, however slight, to be detected in him, and I occasionally observed that he was thinking for himself and expressing his own opinion, a phenomenon so rare that I would any day walk ten miles to observe it, and it amounted to the re-origination of many of the institutions of society.