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...days, you might sigh, when an hour was 45 minutes and sometimes 90, and when people ate with spoons, and butter-knives were but a dream in Shreve, Crump of Low's darkest recesses. But if Alvin Toffler heard you he would scold, consigning you to the First Wave, which began with the original harvest. For Toffler is a visionary, looking out to sea at that big comber waiting to smash the sandcastles of today--this Third Wave, the biggest, most powerful, most blessed of all. "The Third Wave," he notes in the introduction, "is for those who think...
What age and experience have failed to feed this nation in the past 20 years has finally been served on a platter by its youth at the Winter Olympics [March 3]. How hungry we'd become! And so for two weeks in February 1980 we ate it all up. God, it feels good to be full...
...three years at Camp Holmes, a former police barracks in the mountains near Baguio. As prisoners, they were far better off than captured GIs. The mountain site offered healthfully low temperatures and country-club scenery, and for most of the war was not even enclosed by a fence. Prisoners ate as well as guards, and the Japanese carefully protected Red Cross shipments from the wiles of looters and grafters. With approval of their captors, some 500 inmates organized the camp, setting up an adult education program that offered lessons in nine languages including Japanese-taught, of course, by guards...
What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imaginations? Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch! Moloch the loveless! Mental Moloch! Moloch the heavy judger...
...life to prepare this scholarly work. Hancock's official record at Harvard, stored in the basement of Houghton Library, shed some light on his character. Although he entered Harvard at the precocious age of 13, he was an undistinguished student. He complained about the "rotten" food and usually ate at local alehouses, where he picked up a taste for rum. Fowler includes in the text some of the drinking songs Hancock composed while at school...