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...utmost scorn for "intellectual officers" who try to direct battles from an armchair. "The command of men . . . requires more than intellect; it requires energy and drive and unrelenting will." One of his pet peeves was his own quartermaster corps. Quartermasters, he said, "tend to work by theory and base all their calculations on precedent, being satisfied if their performance comes up to standard . . . [They] complain at every difficulty, instead of ... using their powers of improvisation, which indeed are frequently...
Europeans have a phrase for this official myopia-"the Uranium Curtain." Inherent in those words are all the scorn, the disgust, and suspicion which Europeans feel when their educators, their scientists, and their other leading men of affairs and letters are refused entry to this country. Think, for a moment, of what would happen if a number of leading American industrialists were refused visas for travel in Europe because they did not think "straight" on Korea. The bellows from the halls of Congress would dwarf in noise, if not in idealism, the fabled shot heart round the world...
...again, the United Nations received the full blast of DAR rhetoric. The leader of the Glens Falls chapter took the floor. Starting meekly, she pronounced her scorn for would government, then worked up to, "Let us turn the strength massed within this great, influential and highly esteemed organization to a constructive force for the United Nations." The retort was brief but effective. The only thing we have to fear is such a statement as has just been made...
...History and Literature was the only field offering tutorial for all, and even now boasts a well oiled and eminently successful system. With small groups and usually dedicated tutors, there are few complaints. But the assignments are generally quite stiff, and poor preparation is made doubly awkward by the scorn of fellow tutees, most of whom have not only done both the assigned and suggested work, but have read voluminous commentary for free...
Mystics, absorbed in the effort to contemplate God, tend to scorn the physical world around them. Graham concedes that Merton, despite his bent toward mysticism, recognizes the basic Roman Catholic philosophy that "human nature must somehow be essentially good." He doubts, however, that Merton has put this idea clearly across to his readers. His message, stated mostly in terms of his personal experience, is not sufficiently qualified in the light of Catholic doctrine, Graham objects. "He may well already be the saint of his aspirations; theologically, I am afraid, he is still a young man in a hurry...