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...story is set in the jungles of Thailand during World War II, where British prisoners, at forced labor, are building a railroad from Bangkok to Rangoon. At one prison camp along the way, the fanatical Japanese commandant, Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa), is having trouble. The senior officer of a new consignment of prisoners, a prim old pukka sahib named
...former victim of IFD (Idealization-Frustration-Demoralization) and a former student of Semanticist S. I. Hayakawa, allow me to offer a ... realistic bravo for your article [July 12] expressing his thoughts on popular song lyrics ... It may help offset the frustration and demoralization that are so prevalent these days due to our willingness to rear another generation on word symbolism...
...Does Dr. Hayakawa feel that these songs of "ineffectual nostalgia, unrealistic fantasy, self-pity, etc." are, as the record men claim, what the public wants? ... If the good doctor can supplement his diagnosis of the "disease" with a possible formula for the cure, I will pledge myself to the fight...
...think the lyrics of Ira Gershwin and Lorenz Hart will live on long after Dr. Hayakawa has taken his "research" to a place where he will find his "perfect" lyrics. The truest meaning of his IFD is more probably Insane, Frantic and Deaf...
There is probably little hope for improvement, the current crop of songs being as germ-laden with IFD as ever. But for the man who wants to listen to nonclassical music without danger of infection, Hayakawa recommends Negro blues. They have shortcomings, says he, but always as a recurrent theme Negro blues assert "the will to live...