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Cheep to Bellow. Nationalism reared its meek head in Java a generation ago. A chick of the first Dutch efforts at native education, its first cheeps in 1908 were a safe & sane Boedi Oetomo (High Endeavor) society, founded by some aristocratic Javanese medical students. A bevy of more determined groups followed it. Within a decade such nationalists as the smooth-faced, smooth-talking Soekarno, a Bandung Technical University engineering graduate, and Mohammed Hatta, who went to Amsterdam University, were getting bold ideas. They had heard of things like Communism, self-determination, revolution. In the '20s their exuberance landed both...
TIME'S telescoped nouns -"socialite," "radiorator," "guesstimate" - were similarly coined to get one word to do the work of two or more. This kind of economy led us to use the "&" symbol in such stock combinations as "safe & sane," "ham & eggs," "husband & wife," each of which, as sense goes, is practically one word...
...Only the sane were slain. The others were let loose in underground dungeons that dripped water, echoed to the flapping of bats' wings. Reported an Allied officer who visited the dungeons: "Crazy men, dwarfs and giants jumped at us. They laughed and screamed and followed us around in packs...
Wonderland at Last. "It is a characteristic of British thinking, on the whole," says Author Lennon, in her book's most discerning passage, "that each man thinks for himself, yet all reach the same conclusions." But Lewis Carroll, she believes, belongs with that strange, not-quite-sane minority of British child-humorists (Charles Lamb, Charles Kingsley, W. S. Gilbert, James Barrie, Edward Lear) who "have all been to the Never Never Land at the Back of the North Wind, to the Snow Queen's country - to the edge of insanity, [and fetched] a treasure from the borderland...
...Marshal Fedor Tolbukhin's forces between Lake Balaton and the Danube, in Hungary. From Lake Balaton to the Moravian Gate (northeastern entrance to mountain-girt Bohemia) they had 30 German and 20 Hungarian divisions. Fighting Marshal Tito's forces in Yugoslavia they had ten more. The only sane military explanation for this spreading-out of force was a desperate Nazi desire to keep the Allies away from those approaches to the bastion...