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On Being Tossed
I’m being tossed in a thousand different directions, Each with a meaning in time and space, Each to promise a kind of perfection, Each to promise an honorable place. But where is the throne? Where is...
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Knowing A Man
Author’s Note: Knowing A Man was written in the Summer of 1960 while I was a graduate student at Iowa University. This poem was inspired by an old Columbia University professor of mine who had stopped...
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Eugene O'Neill and One Hundred
He was not at home in the world. The Gods chased him into a corner Where With a trembling hand He touched His certain romance with the universe And Calendar. Love was the cruelest month.
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The Heart of this Nation
My brother, Frank, will be ninety in December. He was a math teacher in high school for ten years and a teacher of rhetoric, speech, and theatre in college for thirty years. He lives in a nursing...
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Thinking About September 11, 2001 & 2002
On September 11 we commemorate the loss of thousands of people to an unnatural disaster. Every year the human race suffers the loss of thousands of people to natural disasters — floods, earthquakes,...
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Dr. Howard Stein on Owning the Subject
In a conversation with Robert Chapman many years ago, he who was the co-author of the play, Billy Budd, and the director of the Loeb Theatre at Harvard University, I mentioned a playwright whose work...
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Dr. Howard Stein and the Habit of Intelligent Choice
At the end of the nineteenth century, in a graduation speech to Barnard College graduates, William James made the following statement: What the colleges—teaching humanities by examples which may be...
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Dr. Howard Stein on Golf and the Principle of Consideration
It’s spring, and an old man’s fancy turns to thoughts of golf. My thoughts concentrate on three conditions that no longer seem to exist, neither in golf nor in the society. Golf, as the game was...
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Dr. Howard Stein on Why Playwrights Must Experiment with the Audience
[Author's Note: This is a portion of a speech I gave to the Southeast Theatre Conference in 2000.] In Robert Aulett’s play, Alberta Radiance, Alberta speaks the opening like, “I have this human life to...
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The Most Intelligent Alternative: In Defense of the Public Good
[Publisher’s Note: Boles Blogs author Howard Stein died on October 14, 2012 at 90 years of age. In an ongoing effort to preserve his legacy and memory, David Boles is sharing articles and preserving...
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The University as Hospital: An Inalienable Obligation
[Publisher’s Note: Howard Stein, Boles Blogs author and inspiration, died at age of 90 on October 14, 2012 in Stamford, Connecticut. This article now appears in print as an equalizing effort to...
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Writing a Journal of Memories: The Education of a Teacher
[Publisher’s Note: What you see on this page is the beginning of a publication project Dr. Howard Stein was preparing for David Boles Blogs in the year 2000 upon the celebration of the occasion of his...
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