Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...couple of hours later the Square was quiet again, except for a few apple-checked young men arriving from Yale, but Soldier's Field was having its biggest afternoon of the season. The pretty girls and the undergraduates (with and without bottles) mingled with players, players' families, and Yalies along the sidelines of the dozen-odd football and soccer games. When the Crimson started piling up victories, football fever began to take hold...
There were other improvements over the rude camp life of World War II. Food was better, mud and duckboards were missing, and television sets, golf courses and swimming pools were close at hand. But many an old soldier, eyeing the young inductees, had an idea that they would soon find themselves in the Same Old Army anyhow...
...Fort Benning, Ga., where the new philosophy of training was being experimentally used on Regular Army recruits, one young soldier tardily said: "The noncoms were polite when they first started off, but they hadda get rough or nothin' would be done. If they didn't act that way there would not be no Army...
Unfocused Talents. He scarcely seems a poet in any of his letters. He does not give the impression of a frustrated literary man compelled to be a soldier, an editor, a writer of textbooks. He seems rather a man of massive and unfocused gifts, a soldier and editor restlessly writing poetry to find an outlet for the river of ideas that flowed through him. Even the famous letters to Mrs. Sarah Whitman, with their italics and exclamation points and their second-act curtain speeches, do not seem the love letters of a poet: they are rather the letters...
...each of his roles-soldier, cadet, editor, or unhappy lover-there is no escaping the apparent fact that Poe was a genius, with a mind so quick and extraordinary that, even had he not had a fierce temper and a weakness for drink, his mental superiority to the people around him would probably have made him just as miserable...