Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goings on in Thurber's deceptively casual cartoons range, from the neurasthenic to the pathological. But, like a psychic distorting mirror, they reflect reality-well-locked in the subconscious though it may be. Little boys bite little girls; men hear seals barking in the middle of the night; shapeless women spring into rooms crying, "I come from haunts of coot and hern." Doctors abandon restraint ("You're not my patient, you're my meat, Mrs. Quist...
Included in Mr. Stimson's figures were the casualties in the Ardennes sector during the first three weeks of the German breakthrough: 40,000.* This figure still did not entirely reflect the change wrought by the German breakthrough; e.g., the 106th Division, with more than 8,000 casualties, was smashed, had to be rebuilt before it could go into action again...
...jeep driver in the combat area must wear proper battle dress, carry full equipment. An officer must execute every order fully and on time, and report on his mission, in proper form. Never having needed an alibi himself, Krueger will take none from others. His inspections are searching, and reflect his deep regard for those vital instruments of war, the combat infantryman's feet and stomach. There is no excuse, he holds, for poorly cooked chow, and many a G.I. who had heard of Krueger as a tough, tyrannical ogre has been better fed after a Krueger visit...
...Army Way. When they see the prestige enjoyed by flyers in the Army, and reflect on Admiral King's insistence on seniority in promotion (which is tough on younger flying officers), naval airmen grow even hotter under the collar. Among top-rankers on General Marshall's staff is the Air Forces' Major General Clayton L. Bissell, acting chief of G2. Another airman, Lieut. General Joseph T. McNarney, was Marshall's deputy before he was in command of a theater...
...certainly knew when he was younger. When he says "Lutheranism is essentially German" he should be reminded that Germany is less than 50% Lutheran while all of the Scandinavian lands are more than 90% Lutheran. Those who would "put an end to Luther's influence in Germany" should reflect that Hitler and his advisers are not and never were Lutherans, and that Lutheran pastors have been the chief obstacle to Hitler's absolute sway in Germany, Norway and Denmark, and for that reason they have suffered imprisonment and martyrdom by the thousands...