John Lewis Gaddis, Robert A. Lovett Professor of History, Yale University, delivers the keynote address at "International Security in a New Era of Crisis", a symposium to mark the launch of the Woodrow Wilson School's Center for International Security Studies.
(Apr 30, 2009 at Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: Hamlet's idiot advisors.
noodles1fan 1 year ago
The Dr. Johnson refers not to the sudden tangibility of an imminent (and tacitly avoidable) danger but to the sudden tangibility of an imminent and apparently unavoidable end. He says that the man will be hanged, not that he may be hanged. This, it's implied, by virtue of being unavoidable, will shear his thoughts of chaff and delay and see what remains employed towards his true life interests.
UglyGirlzArntPPL 2 years ago