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Bernard J. Looks
“Many thought and would say that Marty was unrealistic, that he expected far more of his friends, students and associates than they were prepared to give, perhaps more than they could give, that hi...view more“Many thought and would say that Marty was unrealistic, that he expected far more of his friends, students and associates than they were prepared to give, perhaps more than they could give, that his way was meant for giants and not for ordinary men. To be a part of Marty’s entourage, one had to accept the banishment of complacency, since for him an easy life was not worth living. “Bernie,” he would say to me, “you’ve got it too good in Great Neck.” It was fully understandable to me, therefore, that he modified the well-known Latin saying, sine labore nihil, to read, sine tsores nihil, and applied it, but not without a sardonic smile, to himself and his work in the arts to which he was devoted. It was indeed to be the motto by which he lived, worked and died.”
Bernard J. Looks
from Failed Friendships
Bernard J. Looks holds a Ph.D. in modern European history
from Columbia University. He is Emeritus Head of the Social
Studies Department of the Great Neck South High School. After
retirement, he was an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of
Humanities at the United States Merchant Marine Academy. From
1973 to 1976, he was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in
the Department of History, and from 1973 to 1974 a Visiting
fellow at Princeton University in the Department of History. He
has published articles on various aspects of the reform of
education in Europe in the 19th century, on American education in
the 20th century and on film criticism. In preparation, is a
translation with introductory essay, annotations and a glossary
of the philosophical memoir, entitled, How I Arrived at This
Conclusion, by the distinguished French philosopher, Charles
Renouvier.view less
Books by Bernard J. Looks
Night Prelude - an Allegory: A Record of an Event That Might Have Happened