Word: suggesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Summed up Steinbeck: "If you . . . meant to suggest that American soldiers are wicked, degenerate or brutish, you, Ezio Taddei, are a liar...
...editor of Paris' debunking journal Crapouillot (the Trench Mortar) last December went so far as to suggest that Marthe herself could do with some reforming. Citing her own book My Life as a Spy, the editor suggested that Marthe's heroism in the underground had consisted largely of a lightning-love rendezvous with Baron Hans von Krohn, German naval attache in Madrid in 1915. "Captain," Marthe had told her superior when the proposition was put to her, "it is a sacrifice costlier than death." "The Service demands it," answered the captain. "Before this beautiful duty, your small moral...
...when he was working on Belgian relief, old Spanish silver, blue and white porcelain. In the dusty antique shops under Manhattan's Third Avenue El, Hoover is a familiar figure today, hunting around for more blue and white porcelain. He cherishes recollections of his Iowa boyhood which suggest some un-Hooverish pictures. "There was Cook's Hill," he writes from his notes. "That was a great long hill where on winter's nights we slid down at terrific pace with our tummies tight to homemade sleds...
...began to catch whole words and could give meanings to some of them. Now they have a list of 180 words, many of which seem to be related to the language of the fierce Caribs* lived in the Lesser Antilles. Some of the boys' gestures, familiar to ethnologists, suggest that the Motilones may practice human sacrifice...
...human nature which Freud championed so ardently." The book also frowns on modern "client-centered therapy," particularly when a doctor tries to solve "religious and moral difficulties" by dissecting the patient's psyche, then letting the patient put the pieces together again in whichever way his instincts suggest. They write: "[This] is based on the assumption that the source of valuing things lies exclusively in man himself . . . In the final analysis, it makes...