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Psychiatry rushed into World War II as a bumptious big-talking rookie, then turned out to be the Sad Sack of military medicine. This is the verdict of two ex-majors among the 2,400 psychiatrists who served in the U.S. Army...
...heartily sick of this talk of Russia and the democracies not being able to understand each other. Stalin has surrounded himself with as intelligent a group of banditti as ever started out to sack and dominate the universe. . . . They are ... keen of intellect, devoid of truth, moral precepts, ethical standards, and humanitarian motives...
...stick is likely to be more effective than the carrot. It may be true that one reason why people will not work hard is that they can buy so little with their wages. But it is much more true that they will not work because the fear of the sack [of being fired] has vanished from the land, and because the Bankruptcy Court is a depressed area...
...sooner was he sworn in as gang boss, with the hereditary title of "Matsuzakaya the Fifth," than Matsuda began cleaning house. He reorganized the tekiyas into a modern, businesslike corporation (the Matsuda Carrying Trade Co.), ordered his followers to wear Western-style sack suits instead of the traditional drab blue coat and tight white shorts. He also talked about taking the "black" out of the black market, commanded the adoption of "legitimate, ethical and businesslike" methods, prohibited Matsuzakayans from dealing in stolen goods...
...afford high priced films, the Marx Brothers were merely set in front of a rolling camera and untied. The result was a mad sweep stake through the Celluloid, with no handicaps. In comparison, the inflationary "A Night in Casablanca" turns out to be nothing more than a potato sack relay at a Yosian picnic...