Word: ooka
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fires on the Plain (1957), which has been made into a grim movie recently released in the U.S., Author Shohei Ooka attempted a serious study of the fanaticism of the Japanese soldier. Its hero Tamura kills senselessly in the last months of the war in the Philippines. But the more revulsion he feels, the more fanatical he becomes. "All voluntary actions were forbidden to me," he reasons. "I, who had voluntarily robbed a human life of the compulsion whereby it lives, had condemned myself to an existence based entirely on compulsion-the compulsion of moving ineluctably toward my own death...
...desk with my mongrel dog at my left foot, and Ooka, my pet chimpanzee, playing with my shoelaces. A goat is walking on the roof." See FOREIGN NEWS, The Wanted American...
...jungle thickets and unloaded the heavy supplies that arrived by boat. "Hi ho. ho hum, here I am in the middle of Africa," Mark wrote his mother exultantly, typing out a letter on his portable. "I sit at my desk with my mongrel dog at my left foot, and Ooka, my pet chimpanzee, playing with my shoelaces. A goat is walking on the roof...