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...Counter-Revolution. Controversial subjects such as politics and religion are forbidden on Yosian ambles. Members are "of all races, colors and creeds, a sort of walking democracy ... a meeting of the minds as the bodies relax." But there have been troublemakers. Just before the U.S. entered World War II, says Swift, "the Communists made my life hell." It may have been because Swift had broken his own rule and was indulging in subtle counter-revolutionary propaganda, using analogies from nature (ant life...
McGovern is apt to explain Kant in terms of Buicks and boogie-woogie, and fall back frequently on McGovern reminiscences. These include boyhood in Brooklyn, a spell in the English theater, a junket to Tibet's Forbidden City of Lhasa, and his days as a Buddhist monk in Japan. He can also spin yarns about his explorations of Peru's Inca ruins and Formosa's head-hunting country. McGovern is a sound scholar withal, master of twelve languages, author of a Manual of Buddhist Philosophy, and From Luther to Hitler. He was one of the boys...
...Professor. His New York and Los Angeles studios alone employ 350 full-time instructors, 65% girls. (Among his pupils: John D. Rockefeller Jr., Bing Crosby, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.) Instructors are strictly forbidden to have off-hour dates with patrons. Murray pays them from $1.60 to $2.10 an hour, allows them $25 a month extra for clothes and $3 a week for meals, gives them free milk and vitamins and earthy advice (samples: "Your clothes will smell fresher if dry-cleaned regularly"; "Sitting down only enlarges the hips...
Worst Experience. Snowballing close around the schoolhouse and on the well-trodden path between school and outhouses is forbidden. There is an enormous field beyond, in which snowballing is tolerated, if not actively encouraged. When I arrived at the front gate one morning, some of my little angels were snowballing some other little angels just in back of school. I went out and thumped three of them. Fate at that moment sent the eighth-grade boys out to snowball the second-graders right under our noses. This is known as being On the Spot. "Oh yeah," my children...
Random Harvest. In Yokohama, a sentry spotted two Japs in a forbidden area, fired in warning, cut the power line to a Red Cross doughnut factory, ruined 56,000 doughnuts...