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...C.N.O., Zumwalt has effectively applied his philosophical bent-an unusual blend of suave intellectualism in the Maxwell Taylor tradition and a populist disdain for those traditions that demean low-ranking personnel. The result is what the civilian-edited Navy Times calls "an electric feeling throughout the whole Navy." One Zumwalt technique, as at San Diego, has been to visit naval installations to hear out his men. Already he has met with some 30,000 of them. He has also initiated what he calls, a bit stuffily, "retention study groups"-personnel from selected categories who spend a week at the Pentagon...
Like Marx, Lenin loathed anarchists as undisciplined romantics who disdain all authority. Yet he borrowed some of their ideas. In words that Marighella might have used as a model, Lenin urged revolutionaries "to arm themselves with anything they can lay hands on (a rifle, a gun, a bomb, a knife, a stick, a kerosene-drenched rag to set fire with, a rope or a rope ladder, a spade to build barricades, barbed wire, nails against cavalry, etc.). To start training for war immediately, by means of practical operations: killing a spy, blowing up a police station, robbing a bank...
...rebellious gesture I enjoyed then." She is equally candid about her attitude toward later roles. She chose Sand Pebbles primarily because she wanted to go to the Orient, and confesses: "If I'm hard to take now, I must have been unbearable then. I had this tremendous disdain for my profession and this huge arrogance." She airily admits that she agreed to a role in that $10 million bomb, The Adventurers, "purely for money." She adds: "Selling out wasn't as hard as I thought it would be." Anyway, making movies "is a layaway plan for my forties...
...what appears to be a conspiracy to make the customer suffer. He discovers by accident that it is all the work of a company called "Creative Humiliation Associates, Ltd.," which teaches clerks how to "protect" themselves from the customers. "Well, we teach em the dynamics," the manager explains, "woolgathering, disdain, the snub direct and implied, Schadenfreude, the mechanics of sniggering, simple and compound exacerbation-the lot." But all is not lost-they're planning a course for customers as well...
...sees the man as a gifted amateur: "He arrived at the core of matters too easily and therefore could not understand them with real thoroughness." At the outset of the war, Hitler surprised his enemies with tactics they did not expect. But, Speer adds with a professional's disdain, "as soon as setbacks occurred he suffered shipwreck, like most untrained people." Speer became the miracle man of German war production simply by unifying a system fragmented by the conflicting demands made upon it by Hitler's deputies. Yet Speer concedes that his efforts only delayed the inevitable outcome...