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...himself has written a book deploring the Hiroshima and Nagasaki massacres. He tells of proposing that Truman make a goodwill trip to Hiroshima seventeen years after the war. Truman's response was, "I'll go to Japan, if that's what you want, but I won't kiss their ass." Miller comments on this remark: "I expect what Mr. Truman meant was that while he was perfectly willing to explain why he had decided to drop the Bomb, he wasn't going to apologize for it, he wasn't going to say it was wrong. And for all I know...
However, I was quite disturbed that some demonstrators complained about "punk-ass" Republicans, and that one taunted students leaving the Harvard club: "I can't stand seeing all these little Republicans running around...
...give me that smart-ass Jewish attitude, because I've been a smart-ass Jew for 16 years of my life." The police newspaper has called him "Bozo the Clown"; for this and other insults, he has filed a $200,000 libel suit...
...next night, Slingerland was in Northampton listening to a performance of Bach's B-minor mass when she realized something. "After I'd made an ass of myself all that week, I saw that I, and it seems possible Fox and Rosovsky, had made a mistake on the averages," she says. "It turns out that lower-level Expos classes average about 19.6 and middle-level about...
...talking to Chuck quietly for a few more moments and asked what he should do, huh? You were the Captain, he said, you should know what to say to the kid. "All I want to do is to get to Dix, process back into the Army and get my ass to a permanent duty station so I can see my wife and daughter. And I gotta put up with this bullshit. Jesus...