Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Idol Maker" by Bruce Fearing is the best of a mediocre bunch of stories. A penetrating study of an habitual young liar and his motives for lying, Fearing's story is written and concluded strikingly. His style, however, betrays a small debt to Faulkner ("Jimmy looked at the crude statuette in the palm of his hand. LIAR, LIAR, LIAR, he squeezed it, hoping it would crumble to pieces. . ."), a debt which is hardly concealed by the use of capitals. Although Fearing's story is not likely to live on in anthologies, it is still the best in a rather scant...
...Soldier's Code" [TIME, Aug. 29]: It's all very well for a bunch of archaic stuffed shirts, some from a Government-sponsored trade school (West Point), to say what captured fighting men should do; they are too old ever to be faced with the problem ... I flew 49 missions during World War II and was often briefed on P.W. status under the old (Geneva) rules ... To expect draftees to submit to the new code is to raise a new crop of "conchies." To expect men to resist the combination of physical and mental torture known...
There is the impression that the "trial" was not really a trial at all, but an attempt on the part of the "committee" to "reconcile its views with Pastor Crist's." This is false. It was a trial! The blase assumption that here was a bunch of nice guys trying desperately to win over a prodigal son makes me sick...
...swallow that. An hour after urging him to resign, he said, the governor "made a speech crying that he would never bend a knee to the will of the national committee. Well, why in God's name does he expect me to bend a knee to the same bunch...
India's eight million sadhus are mostly a wild and wacky bunch of fanatics who go about naked, claim divine powers, and live on alms. "Many of them simply exploit you and extort money from you," Prime Minister Nehru recently warned his people. "I want you not to have faith in such sadhus...