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...General worked 15-20 hours a day, had no time to change his clothes, blinked his bloodshot eyes, barked at businessmen: "I've been listening to that line of bunk from you fellows long enough," inveighed against "witch doctors," "chiselers," "croakers." But he himself had predicted the day when "dead cats" would fly at him. Suddenly the glory dimmed, the Blue Eagle wavered into a tail spin, and the sorrowing man with the bottle nose resigned. The Supreme Court ended it for good & all. The General became a Scripps-Howard columnist-by turns for seven years morose, exultant, vitriolic...
...dark before dawn a corporal at Fort Bragg found a bunk still occupied after reveille, yanked off the blankets, bellowed: "Get the hell out of there, boy!" Up sat Pulitzer-Prizewinning Dramatist Maxwell Anderson, who had had himself smuggled in, had got what he went for: atmosphere for a new war play...
Radio's most untrammeled critic last week put out a little book that was, like himself, benignant but free from bunk.* As an introduction to broadcasting, and as a try at a sound point of view on the subject, it had few predecessors and no up-to-date rivals. Everything defensible in radio it defended; )'et its strictures and warnings came opportunely at a time when U.S. radio faced the responsibilities of its first...
...welcome to say the least. It is reassuring that an Army fighting for democracy should try itself to understand the meaning of the word. This couldn't be said for our Army of 1917. Then, as in the twenties, the Army High Commond preached that democracy was the bunk. It put out a pamphlet on civics in which it referred to democracy as communistic, anarchic, a government of the mob. Many Army officers have since repented for this unpatriotic expression of personal opinion, and the Army in general has tried to reform its previously undemocratic stand as evidenced...
...debunking, too skeptical," one senses that the Dean's attitude arises from a fundamental belief not in democracy but in the status quo. The reason America's colleges must overdo their task is that their raw product is too unintellectual, too uncritical, too gullible, and too full of bunk. The high schools and to a lesser extent the prep schools provide merely a superficial pot-pourri of facts and so send to college men and women lacking sufficient intellectual maturity to be given the finishing touches of a liberal education in a few months. Because the colleges must teach...