Martin Luther King, the son of a church minister, was born in 1929 in the USA. He won a scholarship to a college when he was 15. After graduation, he became a minister in the church. Then, he studied in Philadelphia until 1951.
Washington Irving
Washington Irving was America’s first man of letters to be known internationally. His works were received enthusiastically both in England and in the United States. He was, in fact, one of the most successful writers of his time in either country, delighting a large general public and at the same time winning the admiration of fellow writers like Scott in Britain and Poe and Hawthorne in the United States. The respect in which he was held was partly owing to the man himself, with his warm friendliness, his good sense, his urbanity, his gay spirits, his artistic integrity, his love of both the Old World and the New. Thackeray described Irving as “a gentleman, who, though himself born in no very high sphere, was most finished, polished, witty–socially the equal of the most refined Europeans”. In England, he was granted an honorary degree from Oxford–an unusual honor for a citizen of a young, uncultured nation–and he received the medal of the Royal Society of Literature; America made him ambassador to Spain.
A Mickey Mouse Course
A Mickey Mouse Course is any college course that is so easy that even Mickey or Minnie Mouse could achieve an A grade. A student who is taking a heavy schedule, or who does not want four or five especially difficult courses, will try to sandwich in a Mickey Mouse course. A student can find out about such a course by consulting other students, since word of a genuine Mickey Mouse course spreads like wildfire. Or a student can study the college master schedule for telltale course titles like The Art of Pressing Wild Flowers, History of the Comic Book, or Watching Television Creatively.
Fear of Fear of Itself
Perhaps it’s true to say that no one actually fears heights or change or the unknown, or whatever their particluar brand of fear is. What they really fear is the out-of-control feeling they experience when confronted by these things. Take flying. The tendency is to focus on the plane. But it’s nothing to do with the plane.
