drmstream[writing]

a place for things that don't have a place elsewhere

The bother

Weak peo­ple project weak­ness on every­one around them. Fright­ened peo­ple project fear on every­one around them. Strong peo­ple can’t under­stand what all the fuss is about.

This wasn’t the experience in 1977

via ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com Colum­bia Uni­ver­sity is up there on the hill where St. Luke’s was in 1900. (St. Luke’s is still on Ams­ter­dam, just not so promi­nent.) But, three-quarters of a cen­tury later, the bucolic vista had turned into a dark, tan­gled park of vio­lence and intrigue that was bor­dered on its west side by a […]