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. . COLD see "NATURE" for related links The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitiant of the northern temperate zones wiser and abler than the fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. "Prudence" _Essays_, First Series [1841] ^ Nathaniel Hawthorne (18041964) American novelist. In March 1864, an ill Hawthorne was traveling with his old friend and publisher James Ticknor. Driving through Philadelphia, the bad weather turned even colder and rainier. Ticknor took off his coat and put it around Hawthorne's shoulders to protect him. It helped Hawthorne but Ticknor caught a severe case of pneumonia and died a few days later. --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ Minnesotans are just different, that's all. On the day of which I speak, with the wind-chill factor hovering at fifty-seven below, hundreds of them could be perceived through the slits in my ski mask out ice fishing on the frozen lake. It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring. --Charles Kuralt (19341997) American journalist and broadcaster. _Dateline America_ [1979] Antiphanes said merrily that in a certain city the cold was so intense that words were congealed as soon as spoken, but that after some time they thawed and became audible; so that the words spoken in winter were articulated next summer. --Plutarch (A.D. 46?119?) Greek philosopher and biographer. Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death! --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. - TRIVIA: The coldest place in the solar system is the surface of Neptune's largest moon Triton, which has a temperature of -391 degrees Fahrenheit. ----- gelid [JEL-id], adjective: Extremely cold; icy.   COLD WAR . . see: "COMMUNISM" see: MCCARTHY, JOSEPH see "WAR & PEACE" for related links - Let us not be deceived - we are today in the midst of a cold war. --Bernard Baruch (1870-1965) American financier, in a speech written by Herbert Bayard Swope We are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer. --Bernard Baruch (1870-1965) American financier, speech before the Senate [1948] - - It is certain that Europe would have been communized and London would have been under bombardment some time ago, but for the deterrent of the atomic bomb in the hands of the United States. --Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [1940-1945, 1951-1955], [25 March 1949] in Martin Gilbert _Never Despair_ [1988] p.464. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. --Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [1940-1945, 1951-1955], [5 March 1946] in _Winston Churchill: His Complete Speeches 1897-1963_ [1974] v. 7 p.7290. & note: An iron curtain is drawn down upon their front. We do not know what is going on behind. --Churchill telegram to Truman [12 May 1945] - - If we mean that we are to hold Europe against communism, we must not budge. I believe the future of democracy requires us to stay here until forced out. --Lucius Clay (1897-1978) U.S. army officer who became the first director of civilian affairs in defeated Germany after World War II. [On 24 June 1948]. in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 878 Cohan & Major explain: Clay had wished to force a road or rail convoy through to Berlin, but he was overruled for fear it would trigger a full-scale war with the Soviet Union. The alternative was an Anglo-American airlift of supplies into the beleaguered city, which succeeded against the odds. The Berlin Airlift & see: The parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all. --Opening words of Article 5, North Atlantic Treaty, signed on 4 April 1949. in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 878 Cohan & Major note: The Berlin blockade gave a decisive impetus to the formation of a western alliance, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which was set up to defend its members - Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States - against a potential attack by the Soviet Union. - I consider your crime worse than murder...I believe your conduct in putting into the hands of the Russians the A-Bomb years before our best scientists predicted Ruissia would perfect the bomb has already caused, in my opinion, the Communist aggression in Korea, with the resultant casualties exceeding 50,000 and who knows but that millions more of innocent people may pay the price of your treason. Indeed, by your betrayal you undoubtedly have altered the course of history to the disadvantage of our country. No one can say that we do not live in a constant state of tension. We have evidence of your treachery all around us every day for the civilian defense activities throughout the nation are aimed at preparing us for an atom bomb attack. --Judge Irving R. Kaufman (1910-1992) Presided over Rosenberg trial, sentencing the Rosenbergs to death for espionage [5 April 1951] It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies. --George Frost Kennan (1904-2005) Ambassador to the USSR in 1952, and to Yugoslavia from 1961 to 1963 and chief architect of the U.S. Cold War policy of containment and deterrence against communism. In "The Sources of Soviet Conduct" _Foreign Affairs_ [July 1947] v. 25, p.57. - This urgent transformation of Cuba into an important strategic base - by the presence of these large, long-range and clearly offensive weapons of sudden mass-destruction - constitutes an explicit threat to the peace and security of all the Americas. --John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1961-1963] [22 October 1962] In M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 885 Cohan & Major point out: In Oct. 1962 the United States detected the installation of Soviet nuclear missile sites in Cuba, less than 100 miles from the American mainland. This produced the gravest international crisis of the post-1945 era. Given the long- standing American proprietary attitude to Cuba, this was an extremely dangerous move for the USSR to make, and it brought the world close to nuclear war. & see We're eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked. --U.S. secretary of state Dean Rusk (1909-1994) [24 October 1962]. in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 885 Cohan & Major add: When Washington imposed a naval blockade on Cuba, the Soviet Union backed down and the missiles were withdrawn in exchange for a secret American pledge never again to mount an invasion of Cuba. We will mould our strength and become first again. Not first if. Not first but. But first period. I want the world to wonder not what Mr. Khrushchev is doing. I want them to wonder what the United States is doing. --John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1961-1963]. In Eric Hobsbawm _The Age of Extremes: 1914-1991_ [2005 edn.] p. 215 - If anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle. --Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) Soviet statesman, Premier [1958-1964], speech in Moscow [17 September 1955] - We will all go together when we go, All suffused with an incandescent glow ... When the air becomes uranious, We will all go simultaneous, Oh, we all will go together when we go. --Tom Lehrer (1928- ) American songwriter and satirist, "We Will All Go Together When We Go" [1953] - So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride -- the temptation blithely to declare yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire. --Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) U.S. President [1981-1989] and former Hollywood actor My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw the Soviet Union forever. We begin bombing in five minutes. --Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) U.S. President [1981-1989] and former Hollywood actor, [11 August 1984]; in David E. Kyvig (ed.) _Reagan and the World_ [1990] p. 1. (Reagan was testing a microphone, unaware his words were live.) As I looked out a moment ago from the Reichstag, that embodiment of German unity, I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: "This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality." Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom. --Ronald Reagan (19112004) American President [19811989] and former Hollywood actor. "Tear Down This Wall" speech, West Berlin [12 June 1987] - There are today two great peoples on the earth who, setting off from different points of departure, seem to be advancing towards the same goal: they are the Russians and the Anglo-Americans ... Each of them seems to be summoned by a secret plan of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world. --Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) French historian and politician. _Democracy in America_ [1835] bk I, pt. 2, ch. 10 Unless Russia is faced with an iron fist and strong language, another war is in the making. Only one language do they understand--"How many divisions have you?" I'm tired of babying the Soviets. --Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1945-1953]. (Remark to Secretary of State James Byrnes, who was suspected of wanting to make a diplomatic deal with Stalin on the future of Europe; in Martin Walker's _The Cold War_ [1993]). - No one has the intention of building a wall. --Walter Ulbricht (1893-1973) German Communist leader and after WW II head of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). [on 17June 1961] & see It's not a very nice solution, but a wall is a hell of a lot better than a war. --John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1961-1963] commenting on the building of the Berlin Wall on 13 Aug. 1961, in Kenneth P. O'Donnell and David F. Powers _Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye [1972] p.350. The Berlin Wall - - More on the Cold War at: http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/coldwar.html http://www.mbe.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/cold_war.htm http://history.acusd.edu/gen/20th/coldwar1.html ;void(0)) COLLEGE . . Photograph: Oxford see "KNOWLEDGE" for related links Enter to grow in wisdom. Depart to serve better thy country and mankind. --Charles William Eliot (18341926) American educator and president of Harvard University [1869-1909]. Lines inscribed on the 1890 Gate to Harvard Yard. If the boy passes the examinations he will be admitted; and if the white students choose to withdraw, all the income of the college will be devoted to his education. --Edward Everett (17941865) American statesman and orator. Responding to protest against admission of a black student at Harvard [1848]. I am told that today rather more than 60 percent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene . . . They are scum. --W. Somerset Maugham (18741965) English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer. In "Sunday Times" [25 December 1955]. If, at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honor and the glory to whaling; for a whaling ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. --Herman Melville (18191891) American novelist and poet. _Moby Dick_ [1851] I don't think the boy of lively mind is hurt much by going to college. If he encounters mainly jackasses, then he learns the useful lesson that this is a jackass world. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (18801956) American journalist and literary critic. _The American Mercury_ p.420 Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach. --Will Rogers [William Penn Adair Rogers] (18791935) American humorist and actor. ^ John Wayne (19071979) American motion-picture actor. Wayne went to Harvard College to receive the famous, and famously satirical, Hasty Pudding Award. At the ensuing press conference he was asked, 'Do you look at yourself as an American legend?' Replied Wayne, 'Well, not being a Harvard man, I don't look at myself any more than necessary.' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ In his first campaign, in 1976, Moynihan's opponent was the incumbent, James Buckley, who playfully referred to "Professor Moynihan" from Harvard. Moynihan exclaimed with mock indignation, "The mudslinging has begun!" --George F. Will (1941- ) American columnist. -- THE VALUE OF A COLLEGE EDUCATION Many of you young persons out there are seriously thinking about going to college. (That is, of course, a lie. The only things you young persons think seriously about are beer, loud music and sex. Trust me: these are closely related to college.) College is basically a bunch of rooms where you sit for roughly two thousand hours and try to memorize things. The two thousand hours are spread out over four years; you spend the rest of the time drinking, sleeping and trying to get dates. Basically, you learn two kinds of things in college: 1. Things you will need to know in later life (two hours). These include how to make collect telephone calls and get beer and crepe- paper stains out of your pajamas. 2. Things you will not need to know in later life (1,998 hours). These are the things you learn in classes whose names end in - ology, - - -osophy, -istry, -ics, and so on. The idea is, you memorize these things, then write them down in little exam books, then forget them. If you fail to forget them, you become a professor and have to stay in college for the rest of your life. It's very difficult to forget everything. For example, when I was in college, I had to memorize don't ask me why the names of three metaphysical poets other than John Donne. I have managed to forget one of them, but I still remember that the other two were named Vaughan and Crashaw. Sometimes, when I'm trying to remember something important like whether my wife told me to get tuna packed in oil or tuna packed in water, Vaughan and Crashaw just pop up in my mind, right there in the supermarket. It's a terrible waste of brain cells. After you've been in college for a year or so, you're supposed to choose a major, which is the subject you intend to memorize and forget the most things about. Here is a very important piece of advice: Be sure to choose a major that does not involve Known Facts and Right Answers. This means you must *not* major in mathematics, physics, biology, or chemistry, because these subjects involve actual facts. If, for example, you major in mathematics, you're going to wander into class one day and the professor will say: "Define the cosine integer of the quadrant of a rhomboid binary axis, and extrapolate your result to five significant vertices." If you don't come up with exactly the answer the professor has in mind, you fail. The same is true of chemistry: if you write in your exam book that carbon and hydrogen combine to form oak, your professor will flunk you. He wants you to come up with the same answer he and all the other chemists have agreed on. Scientists are extremely snotty about this. So you should major in subjects like English, philosophy, psychology, and sociology subjects in which nobody really understands what anybody else is talking about, and which involve virtually no actual facts. I attended classes in all these subjects, so I'll give you a quick overview of each: 1. ENGLISH: This involves writing papers about long books you have read little snippets of just before class. Here is a tip on how to get good grades on your English papers: Never say anything about a book that anybody with any common sense would say. For example, suppose you are studying Moby-Dick. Anybody with any common sense would say that Moby Dick is a big white whale, since the characters in the book refer to it as a big white whale roughly eleven thousand times. So in your paper, you say Moby-Dick is actually the Republic of Ireland. Your professor, who is sick to death of reading papers and never liked Moby Dick anyway, will think you are enormously creative. If you can regularly come up with lunatic interpretations of simple stories, you should major in English. 2. PHILOSOPHY: Basically, this involves sitting in a room and deciding there is no such thing as reality and then going to lunch. You should major in philosophy if you plan to take a lot of drugs. 3. PSYCHOLOGY: This involves talking about rats and dreams. Psychologists are obsessed with rats and dreams. I once spent an entire semester training a rat to punch little buttons in a certain sequence, then training my roommate to do the same thing. The rat learned much faster. My roommate is now a doctor. If you like rats or dreams, and above all if you dream about rats, you should major in psychology. 4. SOCIOLOGY: For sheer lack of intelligibility, sociology is far and away the number one subject. I sat through hundreds of hours of sociology courses, and read gobs of sociology writing, and I never once heard or read a coherent statement. This is because sociologists want to be considered scientists, so they spend most of their time translating simple, obvious observations into scientific sounding code. If you plan to major in sociology, you'll have to learn to do the same thing. For example, suppose you have observed that children cry when they fall down. You should write: "Methodological observation of the sociometrical behavior tendencies of prematurated isolates indicates that a casual relationship exists between groundward tropism and lachrimatory, or 'crying,' behavior forms." If you can keep this up for fifty or sixty pages, you will get large government grants. -- -- On the first day of college, the Dean addressed the students, pointing out some of the rules. The female dormitory will be out-of-bounds for all male students, and the male dormitory to the female students. Anybody caught breaking this rule will be fined $20 the first time. He continued, Anybody caught breaking this rule the second time will be fined $60. Being caught a third time will incur a hefty fine of $180. Are there any questions? At this, a male student in the crowd inquired, How much for a season pass? -- TRIVIA: In 1841, Oberlin College in Ohio became the first U.S. college to award degrees to women. ----- disquisition dis-kwuh-ZISH-uhn, noun: A formal discourse on a subject. ;void(0)) COLORS . . I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. --Alice Walker (1944 ) American Writer, poet, and essayist. _The Color Purple_ [1982] ----- cerulean (adj) Of deep blue: of a deep blue color, like the sky on a clear day (literary) clair de lune (noun) 1. type of glaze: a pale blue or grayish blue glaze used on porcelain 2. pale bluish gray: a pale bluish gray color florid [FLOR-id], adjective: 1. Flushed with red; of a lively reddish color. 2. Excessively ornate; flowery; as, "a florid style; florid eloquence." Ex.: The Reverend Mr Kidney is a short round bowlegged man with black muttonchop whiskers and a florid face, like a pomegranate, into which he has poured a great quantity of brandy and lesser amounts of whisky and claret. --Tom Gilling, _The Sooterkin_ gamboge (noun) A strong yellow color. Synonyms: lemon yellow, maize, lemon incarnadine [in-KAR-nuh-dyn], adjective: 1. Having a fleshy pink color. 2. Red; blood-red. 3. To make red or crimson. piebald (adj.) Having patches of different colors, particularly black and white spots. It is used most frequently in reference to animals. rubicund [ROO-bih-kund], adjective: Inclining to redness; ruddy; red. Ex.: Rubicund from his cocktail, big, broad, lustrous with power, he exuded what Walter Pater called the "charm of an exquisite character, felt in some way to be inseparable from his person. --Edmund Morris, _Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan_ subfusc [sub-FUHSK], adjective: Dark or dull in color; drab, dusky. verdure [VUR-jur], noun: Green; greenness; freshness of vegetation; as, the verdure of the meadows in June. end page | CALAMITIES - CALM | CALUMNY - CAMPAIGN FINANCING | CAMPAIGNS & CANADA | CANCER - CAN'T WIN | CAPITALISM | CAREFREE - CARPE DIEM | CARTER (JIMMY) - CATS & DOGS | CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES - CENSORSHIP | CERTAINTY - CHANGE | CHANGING (ONE'S MIND) & CHANGING TIMES | CHARACTER | CHARACTER ASSASINATION - CHEERFULNESS | CHEER UP! - CHILDHOOD | CHILDREN | CHILDREN'S RHYME | CHILE & CHINA | CHOCOLATE - CHRISTIANITY | CHRISTMAS | CHURCH - CIGARS | CIRCUMSTANCES & CITIES | CIVILITY - CIVIL RIGHTS | CLARITY - CLICHES | CLOTHES - COFFEE | COLD - COLORS | COMEDY | COMFORT - COMMON SENSE | COMMUNICATION | COMMUNISM | COMPANIONSHIP - COMPASSION | COMPETITION - COMPLIMENTS | COMPOSERS - CONDUCTORS | CONFESSION - CONQUEST | CONSCIENCE - CONTENTED | CONTEXT - CONVENTIONAL WISDOM | CONVERSATION | CONVICTION & COOKING | COOLIDGE - CORPORATIONS | CORRECTING - COURAGE | COURT - COWS | CREATIVITY - CRIME | CRIME & PUNISHMENT - CROOKS | CRITICISM & CRITICS | CROWD (THE) - CUBA | CULTURE - CYNICS | | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | Photos | |
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