Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Effect on girls all over the nation has not been calculated, but most sociologists, who feel that the Sinatra complex is a phase of a mass-loneliness cycle caused by the war, would say that this will strengthen the whole thing: if the U. S. Army won't mother him, the girls will probably want to comfort him about the whole thing: he feels terrible about it. It appears that he had been boasting to his friends about how he was going to make the grade and become a private...
...pillbox on the local beach and only then gets down to work plying his trade in the form of sundry beach-landing structures. He can claim the Army has read the qualification card too literally. So can the disgruntled G.I. who is in the mechanized cavalry because his mother was a bareback equestrienne for Barnum and Bailey. Nobody's denying they make mistakes in classification. It's a big Army of the United States. But Joe College has no kick coming. Not if I can judge by what I've seen in assorted Posts, Camps and Stations...
Beatrice Ayer Patton, in the midst of the hurly-burly about her husband (see p. 69), published in This Week a short story about a scared soldier. Apropos her husband's difficulties, she. recalled: "I think I'm a good mother, but I can remember all too well punishing my children in the heat of disappointment or shock and wishing later I hadn't. ... He made a mistake-and it can't be undone-I just hope they won't kick him to death while he's down." Clifton Fadiman, in his last month...
...Born, on Monday, January 27, to Mr. and Mrs. Jim Daderight, a son. The little fellow has the community's sincere sympathy. On his mother's side are three idiots and one jailbird of record, and nobody on the father's side of the house can count above four. With that start in life, he faces a world that will scorn and abuse and eventually hang him through no fault...
...redis covering something that he had always known, and finding new confirmation for a faith that he had never lost, he wrote that the American soldier is full of affection and the yearning for affection. In the deep despair of the Wilderness campaigns he wrote to his mother that of the many he had seen die, he had not seen or heard of one who met death with terror. He knew that he would treat wounded Southern soldiers as gently. The faces of the dead were transfigured. He stepped out of his tent one grey, dim daybreak, and walked...