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...coward forever," Bardamn declares. It is here that he plucks at the most vulnerable nervous fibre of the French--the secret doubt of their own courage that arises not from national cowardice but from the memory of the last war with its indescribable weariness, interminable sleeplessness, horror, death, filth and inevitable thousands of mutineers...
...Journey." The other characters do not take shape with anything near the same success. Robinson, a fellow inmate of the war hospital who appears intermittently throughout the book seems simply a variation of Bardamn himself, one whose moral sense and self-respect have mired deeper and deeper in futility, filth, and fear. The others leave little personality impression behind them. The translation by Mr. Marks is excellent and displays a remarkable knowledge of the English language and a great facility in American slang...
...scientific validity and value such an investigation may have. But I do wish to call attention to the rotten attitude of Harvard officialdom toward sex. Why do they blush the minute sex is brought out into the open? Why do they insist on pushing it underground where it becomes filth? Why is the most important of human instincts never mentioned more than superficially in any Harvard courses except abnormal psychology and others similar? As for the questionnaire, Harvard will become more of a laughing stock if the officials quash the whole affair, than if every student were proved...
...time the animal side of our natures was given a healthy recognition. Sex considered as something extra, something on the side, will always be dirty. The questionnaire will have served an important purpose if it clears the air of filth-breeding suppression, and implants in everyone's mind the need of complete sex education and the importance of a well-adjusted sex life--at college and after college...
...city that prides itself on an enviable health record, look askance once more at our neighbor to the south and damn it again for the pesthole of filth, greed, racketeering and thievery that...