Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Approximately 5,000 of us are in the same predicament. We were accepted into Advanced ROTC, not on the basis that we had to take flight training, but solely on the fact that we would receive Reserve Commissions and could chose the branch of the Air Force we desired...
...essential part of freedom. I cherish this freedom as greatly as he and would defend as staunchly as he the right of privacy for a private individual. But the only thing private about G. David Schine is his rank in the Army. It was not I who chose to make Mr. Schine a public figure; I would have much preferred to have seen him remain in private life as the president of a hotel chain. But he is now much more, and it was Schine himself who purposely decided to become a public figure...
...dated frequently. She describes how Schine was obsessed with power and the contrast between the strong and the weak. She tells of a paper which he wrote for a Human Relations course that he took. The paper was supposed to describe a concrete situation of human interaction, and Schine chose a real conflict with his roommate and the other men on the floor. It seems that all the others on the floor were extremely good friends, very gregarious, and liked to have the fire doors on the floor left open. But not Schine. He objected and asked Dr. Little...
...Schine chose this conflict for the theme of his paper. He described the conflict between the "strong roommate" who wanted the fire-door closed and the "weak roommate" who wanted it open. The strong one won out in the end, of course. Schine's section man gave him a bad mark on the paper and commented that the "strong roommate" was probably in need of psychiatric help...
...selection of Patience was a fortunate choice, for although the Sullivan music is not so easily remembered, Gilbert's libretto is one of his most amusing. Abandoning the broader styles of Pinafore, Gilbert chose to satirize the aesthetes of the 1880's, characterized best by Oscar Wilde and his inevitable vest-pocket lily. With a sophisticated and satiric type of humor, the opera affords opportunities, if well handled, for superb comedy...