Word: comradeship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mint, the brutalities of noncoms, the indifference of officers, the rude comradeship and intellectual sterility of barracks life are set down with hard fidelity. But Lawrence, a romantic misfit, was overcome with tiresome self-pity. He tried to understand what barracks and discipline do to men's lives, but Lawrence's writing was best suited to description, and it became cluttered when he tried to think. Set down as it is in short jerky chapters, The Mint has no final impact. Above all, it comes too late. A generation of men who know KP chores, the squeeze...
...Hepburn-Ruston, was a high-pressure business promoter and rabid anti-Communist who, after leaving Audrey's mother, joined Sir Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts (British Union of Fascists). Audrey's earliest companions were her two older half brothers, with whom she spent many hours in tomboy comradeship, climbing trees and racing across the green fields of their Belgian estate. Unlike most little girls, she did not care for dolls. "They never seemed real to me," she says. She preferred instead the company of dogs, cats, rabbits and other animals with as much vitality as herself...
Into Sunny Honeymoon Italy's Alberto Moravia pours the heady wine of love and politics. Married two days and honeymooning on Capri, an increasingly testy husband finds his Communist bride continually fending him off. Worse still, she shows an easy sense of comradeship with a fellow party worker they meet on the island. Just when the unhappy husband has decided that he and his wife are politically incompatible, a helpful bolt of summer lightning melts her lovingly in his arms...
This was his most aggressive passage, and brought loud cheers. No such aggressive note marked his references to the Communists, but he warned that peace is not to be had simply by the seeking. "This would be the most fateful moment for the free nations to relax their comradeship and preparations," he said. "To fail to maintain our defense up to the limit of our strength would be to paralyze every beneficent tendency towards peace both in Europe and Asia...
...identity of government personalities, the prayer of us Americans continues to be that the Almighty will watch over the people of that vast country and bring them, in His wisdom, opportunity to live their lives in a world where all men and women and children dwell in peace and comradeship...