Word: comradeship
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...book's most unconvincing passages occur when Sajer, on Berlin leave, falls in love with a little rose-and-cream operetta type named Paula. He is far more credible when he writes of buddies like the huge, permanently hungry Hals: "We discovered a comradeship which I have never found again...
...Consciousness III. There were a few early IIIs before the mid-1960s: among them Thoreau, James Joyce, Wallace Stevens, J.D. Salinger. But now there are thousands, says Reich, eager to transform American society by a new, generous life-style and a direct commitment to simplicity, honesty and gentle comradeship. The revolution will be peaceable too, for anyone who believes in power and violence, says Reich, is not yet up to Consciousness III. Instead, Reich sees the young simply infiltrating and then inheriting the future. "The new consciousness will spread," he writes happily, "and whatever it gives life to -a university...
...Gregory, pretty waitresses are the most important thing about a truck stop. "It means a lot to come into a place where you're recognized and know the girls," he says. It is a relief from the forced comradeship of the cab. Drivers usually work with the same partner for six months, which can make for trouble. Says Paul Hadaway, a vice president of Navajo Freight Lines: "Rifts between drivers often start over questions of hygiene in the cab and build to criticism of driving technique. When you're in the cab with that fellow for weeks...
...this work is for the Revolution, which means it is for my children at the same time-to get for them and everyone in the Revolution all the things they need. The main thing I have had to learn in the Revolution is to live in collectivity and comradeship. Something that helped me very much was the scholarship school, where I had to live with others, and being in the literacy campaign, and work like that...
...like things broken and helpless. Destruction is a form of possession," he observes in an Iago-like attempt to dominate the inquisitive colonel. "War is the great sexual game. You could say that castration is the goal. And enemies are always, in a sense, lovers. They experience an interesting comradeship in their fear. And the true soldiers-the real killer-is always glad to have an object to murder. He wants to put his training to work and mate with his victim in a little dance of death, you see." And so, it turns out, does Clive...