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...Diane Conrad Emmaus...
Each year the CDC accepts 60 or so people involved in health care for a two-year tour of duty with the EIS. "We look for the bright, somewhat aggressive independent thinker," says Dr. Lyle Conrad, head of the division's field service officers. About half are based in Atlanta; the rest are assigned to public health departments around the country, with which the CDC works closely. All are on call 24 hours a day, ready to go wherever a disease breaks out, be it food poisoning or a case of primary pneumonic plague that appeared in 1980 in California...
...from terrifying place even in the '50s. Most of them were quartered in a New Weimar set among palm trees. In Strangers in Paradise, John Russell Taylor, film critic of the Times of London, tells ironic tales out of court about the Hollywood settlers. Actors like Conrad Veidt and Otto Preminger, fleeing from Hitler, were hired to impersonate Nazis in war movies. Ernst Lubitsch, eager to propagandize against the Third Reich, directed a delicate, tentative farce, To Be or Not to Be, starring Jack Benny as a Polish ham actor. In the film a German general appraises Benny: "What...
...were certainly not invented in the 20th century. But the worst modern tyrants committed their obscenities in the name of secular abstractions. Writes Johnson:"Hitler was totally irreligious and had no interest in honor or ethics. He believed in biological determinism, just as Lenin believed in historical determinism." Joseph Conrad foresaw the consequences of the unprincipled approach in Under Western Eyes when he wrote: "A violent revolution falls into the hands of narrow-minded fanatics and of tyrannical hypocrites at first. Afterwards comes the turn of all the pretentious intellectual failures of the time...
...into Radcliffe, where I had to study too hard to stay in, and even though I was class of '72 and got to partake of the thrilling occupation of Widener Library and to practice fellatio impromptu between the Conrad and Cooper stacks, I felt that the sixties had passed me by before I'd got started...