Fieldston School - Fieldglass Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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THESE WEHE THE MUMENTS WHEN WE SENSEU THAT WE WEHE P!-XHT UE THE ENUHMUU5 WHULE -IVIINUTELY SMALL YET PUTENTIALLY SIGNIEIEANT.

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N, 3flW 1 One world . . .Ten inches in diameTer. FirsT oT all, we wonder aT The world in which we live, aT iTs com- plexiTies and aT iTs unpredicTabiliTy. We wonder abouT war peace sTrikes sTarving children wandering people. We don'T worry Too much, we simply wonder - Trom a disTance. And iT is The lcind oT wondering +ha+ Takes The Torm oT ThoughT or an idea - in an EThics discussion or a l-lisTory class. or waTching a Tilm or passing The newssTand aT The boTTom oT The hill. lT is a Temporary, TleeT- ing glimpse oT a world divorced Trom personal realiTy. We also wonder abouT ourselves, abouT college iob wiTe and lcids home and Triends. This is a diTTerenT wondering, inTense and inTernal, Tangible if un- real. This is a sorT oT wondering ThaT Takes The Torm oT a plan, a day- dream where The world becomes simple and predicTable, in which all seems perTecT and compleTe. And Then, perhaps only aT occasional momenTs, There is a Tusion oT The Two . . . The personal dream and The world idea.

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An idea. ls iT legal? IT mighT be. TALKING DAME EASY. . . Words, someTimes meaningTul, oTTen superTluous. were always presenT. SomeTimes, in The pracTice oT democ- racy. we could sense Their meaning, Their power and viTaliTy. For here responsibiliTy had To be as- sumed and Tullilled. l-lere The ineicliciencies oT democraTic procedure had To be grappled wiThq The choice oT eTTecTive acTion on The parT oT a Tew individuals or less eTTecTive acTion on The parT oT a larger group had To be made, The virTues oT each balanced aT every sTep. I-lere The lessons oT how To concenTraTe one's eTTorTs on a parTicular aspecT oT a larger problem, oT how To do a good iob insTead oT a big one, had To be learned. Here poliTics had To be reduced Trom The absTracT To The Tangible. l-lere words were TuncTional. AT oTher Times, while we wasTed Them, we recognized Their superTluiTy.