Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walked out, gaunt and shaken, to surrender Corregidor, Lieut. General Jonathan M. Wainwright did not feel like a hero. As a prisoner of Japan he did not feel like one, either. "Skinny" Wainwright, who could remember the bugle-bright traditions of the U.S. cavalry, learned a dingier drill-to remove his shoes when entering buildings, to bow to his captors. He was allowed no news. Lonely and aging, he could only wonder about how the war was going, and what the nation and the Army thought about him-if they ever did think about...
...guilt they seemed to feel not at all. Some students of Japanese history maintain that in ancient and modern Japanese ethics there is no sense of guilt. Sin and catastrophe are in the same category. The war's disastrous end was grievous as earthquakes had been grievous. Defeat polluted but did not necessarily shame; it called, perhaps, for "purification," but not for repentance and atonement...
...change the village store to a tearoom. Like most successful female zanies, she would now like to be a little more dignified about it; Joan Davis' manhunting haunt act on Tea Room is considerably more decorous than her old show. Says she: "In my heart I feel I am so much more than a screwball...
...These are people who act as if they are perfectly normal, but actually lack the ability to feel affection or attachment to anyone. So they usually imitate others, which makes some of them perverted, others virtuous. One patient bought a dog to imitate its friendliness...
Last week the Generalissimo sent his second telegram of invitation to Mao Tse-tung: "To achieve national reconstruction and reap the fruits of the war of resistance will depend to a great extent upon your coming to Chungking to discuss and jointly formulate our national policies. ... I cannot but feel sorry you are delaying your departure...