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...armymen in the Russian zone of occupation, the anti-Communist Viennese have only hatred and fear. For the 10,000 easygoing, sometimes ill-mannered American G.I.s, Viennese have a kind of cultural scorn-and a cultural weakness. Such Yank idioms as "50-50," "yam [i.e., jam] session" and "get a bissel [i.e., a little] in the mood" have crept into the Viennese vernacular. Fruit juices, powdered coffee and Coca-Cola from American PXs are standard in the Viennese way of life. Austrian counterparts of American bobby-soxers are singing such ditties as Kaugummi oder Ich muss den Johnny kiissen...
Recently Grotewohl's conscience, and the scorn of his former Socialist friends, seemed to trouble him. Last year he paid a secret call on U.S. and British officials in Berlin, offered to desert the Communists and work for the West. His only condition was that the Socialists in the Western zone welcome him back into the party. Socialist Leader Kurt Schumacher scornfully refused. Grotewohl continued serving the Russians. When the Reds set up their puppet regime in Germany, they made Grotewohl chancellor. In his fine, freshly painted office, the chancellor found little work to do; the Russians...
...scrapers than symphony orchestras or universities. Incidental things, such as converting the one undamaged art museum in Munich into an officers club, have not convinced Germans of American intellectual interests. In short, the undertaking has lacked sophistication, and in a society which gives enormous respect to intellectuals their scorn carries great weight. Gradually, the ISD has come to realize that there is little value in planning propaganda for Germans and Austrians in terms of an American public...
Morton, however, is very successful in his defense of the contemplative vocation and in his scorn for the modern Godless civilization. "The Quickening of St. John the Baptist" likens the members of a cloistered order to the unborn Baptist waiting in his mother's womb for the coming of Christ's mother, Mary, with the announcement of the anticipated birth of God, the Son. The speechless Trappists and Carmelites are "sealed in the dark and waiting to be born;" they are the sentinels that the world must post to hear "the first far drums of Christ...
...most effective poetry in this collection is in "To the Immaculate Virgin, on a Winter Night." Though contemptuous in nature, it is a clam, lamenting scorn--subtly cognizant of the fact that the poet himself is a part of the world he is criticizing. "Lady, the night has got us by the heart--words turn to ice in my dry throat praying for a land without a prayer." Throughout Merton expresses him self simply and sublimely--"the night is falling and the dark steals all the blood from the scarred west." Religious poetry is as its best when...