Word: arens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whether you're a highly educated technical officer or the most ignorant draftee. You're sitting in nowhere after a hard day and you have nothing to read but a couple of old magazines you've read ten times. It's raining solidly, so there aren't any movies. The Indian radio is full of Urdu and Hindustani and that monotonous music which drives Caucasians crazy. So you go out and get yourself a bottle and a woman. This may sound silly or sissy or something, but when you turn on your set and hear...
...shouted in German to the officer: "Are you an army officer or aren't you? Our armies do not shoot captured German officers. Is it a practice of the German Army to shoot captured American and British officers...
...dust of Normandy still on them. As they sit down at a typewriter, you notice that they look more healthy than the people who have worked in this hotbox since Dday. . . . There are no filing cabinets down here, no desks, just a long table ringed with typewriters. There aren't enough chairs. It's a triumph of cooperation between the American networks that no man has yet been forced to write his copy standing...
...Hutchins is trying to overturn American education. Aren't you glad? [He also] is trying to revolutionize the modern world, and when a great big handsome president of a great big handsome university goes revolutionary, it is time to sit up and take notice. [He] is proposing a little island of socialism in a capitalistic country. ... A university, he says, is a 'consecrated community' [to] seek the salvation of men's minds. [Hutchins] wants to free professors from the pressure to pursue mink coats for their wives, or for somebody else's wives, and assure...
...classic parody: "Oh to be in England now that the Army's there." British females, given good girdles and such, silk stockings, high heels, a permanent wave and a good set of cosmetics, could easily come up to American standards of beauty. After five years of war they aren't doing...