By Dr. Bruce Smith —— Bio and Archives--May 8, 2023
Those were heady days in October, 1973. I was a junior at Indiana University, back in the dorm, and I had just begun to implement my new strategy for academic success. There was a full load of tough classes, heavily tilted toward upper level history. There was Modern Germany, Eastern Europe, genetics, education. I was in a history honors seminar with my new academic mentor, and every meeting was like opening King Tut’s tomb. What days they were, always to be savored and remembered with a glowing heart.
The previous summer of ’73 I had watched the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings with the senile old Democrat Sam Ervin, manipulated like a marionette to do the bidding of those determined to bring down Nixon for any reason that could be found. The ranking Republican member was Howard Baker. Another Republican member was Lowell Weicker of Connecticut. What a joke that was. Inouye, Montoya, and Talmadge were also on the committee as Democrats. The committee did a lot of tut-tutting and harrumphing, but when it ended they had nothing to link the president to the Watergate break-in. They kept sniffing and pointing fingers.
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By Barbi on 2023 05 08
Oh, my! I had never seen this quote before. The whole article was worth it just to read this one thing:
“The student now goes to school to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.”
I think I should hang that up someplace in our study where we can see it.
Thank you for sharing that.
I too, enjoy Monet. I met my husband, Mike, at a truck stop. The first date we had was to go see the Monet exhibit. I knew that night he was different. I heard that Monet took out brown and black because he had seen so much death and destruction. I started looking at Monet art after coming through a terrifically violent domestic abuse situation. I remember seeing one single stem red rosebud with a raindrop collected in it. The sun made it look like it was holding a diamond. I too, chose to see the loveliest of colors from now on.
Thank you again, Dr. Smith, for taking me through a time with colors, words, and details.
