Word: bedevilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With an annoying persistency, the subject of parictal rules each year rises from the morass of College regulations like an evil genie to bedevil Housemasters and students alike. Rules, like babies constantly need changing--or so some people think. Yet, despite the absurd quibbles about giving an hour here and taking one there, one suggestion stands out among the many as sociological rather than mathematical...
Hana-ogi is the lead dancer in an all-girl troupe governed by austere rules of conduct. But Lloyd and Hana-ogi break all the rules and become lovers. The affair that results is an obstacle race with tragedy. Social pressures bedevil the pair; so do officers' wives, Army regulations and Lloyd's father ("Y'can't send half-Jap boys to the Point"). Finally, Hana-ogi is sent to another dancing post and Lloyd is railroaded back to the U.S. and his pre-fling fiancée, a general's daughter...
...there is a rush of cases. Or he may keep the patient a couple of days longer; his interviews are more searching, and he may have time to treat moderately severe cases with a "truth drug" and let the patient act out the battle experiences and emotions which bedevil him. Finally, there is the Eighth Army's hospital in Seoul, camouflaged under the name of a "holding company." Even there, patients from the front lines stay only a few days. If the psychiatrists are satisfied that a man cannot be fixed up then & there, they order him evacuated...
...Prime Minister David Lloyd George proffered personal honors; Weizmann graciously declined and said: "There is nothing I want for myself . . . I would like you to do something for my people." He got the Balfour Declaration, which promised the Jews a national home in Palestine-a promise that was to bedevil British consciences for a generation...