Bergen Evans
Bergen Evans
Bergen Baldwin Evanswas a Northwestern University professor of English, and a television host. He received a George Foster Peabody Award in 1957 for excellence in broadcasting for his CBS TV series The Last Word...
essence witch procedures
That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.
experience given meaning selection until wisdom
Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
experience given until wisdom
Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.
writing skills confusion
Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.
leadership college average
Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.
coffee spoons civilized
Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.
vices virtue mere
The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
liars lying indispensable
Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.
reflection vocabulary intellectual
Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase one's vocabulary throughout life is a sure reflection of intellectual progress.
want hypothesis observation
We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.
selection
There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom....
leadership able motivated
Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.
leader way following
For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.
glitter magpies seizing
Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.