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...Gag Factory. Wouk majored in comparative literature (like The Caine's Willie Keith) and in philosophy (like Marjorie's Noel Airman). This was the period of what Wouk now calls "the great sophomoric enlightenment ... I discovered the 18th and 19th centuries, and, for a time, I didn't observe my religion very carefully." In time he went back to his faith. His return was not caused by any particular crisis, only "the crisis of living as an adult. I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk...
...talk that most stirred the conference's first week was a bold prophecy by India's Physicist Homi J. Bhabha, 45, conference president. Bound by none of the security regulations that so often gag U.S. experts, Bhabha predicted that by 1975 man will have tamed the H-bomb's fusion reaction and converted its tremendous energy (more than 1,000 times that of the Abomb) to useful electric power...
Johnston ends his book with sheer fantasy: a description of his own death in the Brenner Pass. At first sight, this appears to be a crude and contrived gag, but Johnston insists that he is serious. His moral is that he has crossed the nine rivers of experience and reached his long-sought goal: an understanding of war, which is too terrible for a man to live with. Such fatalism-and conceit-seems out of character with the life-lusty Irishman revealed in the book's earlier pages...
They flew the 30,000 miles mostly aboard Military Air Transport Service and Air Force planes. Unpressurized cabins brought ear trouble. There was a running gag of one violinist asking his neighbor, "How did I play tonight? I couldn't hear myself." One flight, between Tokyo and Seoul, ran into a storm so Wagnerian that everyone but Director Don Gillis became violently ill. Gillis. with an oxygen tank but no mask, dashed up and down the plane spraying groaning musicians in the face with oxygen. "It may or may not have helped," he says...
...explained afterwards: "I had to write that. That's just a formality. What I really want to know is, where do you get men like that captain?" At public dinners Vishinsky ordered Zhukov about, and Zhukov dutifully read speeches handed to him by Zampolit officers. He did not gag when Stalin took credit for the great victories. The Zampolit organization had grown to huge proportions and was again the terror of the Red army. Into East Germany came Commissar Serov, to superintend the liquidation of dissidents, the dismantling of factories and museums, the kidnaping of scientists and the setting...