Word: camped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summers--1925 and 1926--he directed the Harvard Engineering camp at Squam Lake...
Perhaps the most satisfying moment the office had last year came when a woman walked in with a postal card. It was from the concentration camp in Poland where her husband was interned and it was written in Polish. She spoke only French. A quick look through the files and Holt phoned a student language expert, who translated it from Polish to English. A second man was called to put it into French...
...condemnation of her "wholesale slaughter of infants," I cannot but wonder about Dr. Deutschman's pretentiousness in passing judgment on the doctor's morals . . . Presumably, it would have been a happier choice to put the mothers to death before the children were born, [or] should the camp authorities consent to exceptions ... to raise children with the prospects of starvation, medical experimentation, permanent physical and mental mutilation...
...each reacts according to his mold. Diestl is caught in the barbarism and demoralization of the Nazi army. Whitacre gets hold of himself by learning the values of sacrifice in a common, just cause. And Ackerman emerges from a harrowing ordeal of anti-Semitic persecution in an Army camp to become the ideal democratic soldier: thoughtful, selfless, heroic...
...trouble with The Young Lions is that, though Shaw has planned a large narrative structure, his novel often crumbles into unintegrated sketches. Many of these are good, especially at suggesting the drab atmospheres of Army camps, but many others become preachy and dreadfully sentimental. What is worst about his writing is that he has uncertain taste; he never knows when to stop. He begins with a moving description of Noah's pain at coming across anti-Semitism in the army and then collapses into a completely incredible bit of hocus-pocus in which Noah fights ten big soldiers...