Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report belatedly released and why did the Army make such an occasion of it, when, after all, Sorge's prewar spy ring had worked against the Axis, not the U.S.? MacArthur's headquarters thought that it was a timely reminder of a fact which most Americans learned in the investigations of Communist spy rings in the U.S. and Canada. The most effective spies the U.S.S.R. has are apt not to be Russians, but Communists of other nationalities who are perfectly willing to work for headquarters in Moscow, without thought for the welfare of their own countries...
...land has been split up: with a few careful exceptions, nobody can own more than six acres or rent out more than three. Land reform halted Communism's appeal to Japanese farmers. As landowners they feel that they are small, separate, independent entrepreneurs. They dislike the mere thought of Russian collectives, which many of them saw as Soviet prisoners...
Weeks gave two reasons for his resignation, which he explained, came after a full term's thought. Those were the pressure of personal matters, and the fact that he would be away from Cambridge for several weeks this spring looking...
...years the affair dragged on, but Kafka finally broke off because the girl could never understand his way of living and because he feared that as a sick and. indigent writer he would be a burden to her. In his diary he yearns for marriage and normal happiness; the thought of children makes him ecstatic. Once an apartment was rented and furniture bought, but his self-doubts forced him to turn back. In one entry he sadly and ironically remarks that his fiancee "wants the average: a comfortable home, an interest on my part in the [family's] factory...
What redeems these diaries from sheer morbidness is Kafka's herculean determination to find health and purpose in his writing. Even when he thought of suicide, he drove himself to his desk. Writing "is my struggle for self-preservation ... Go on working regardless of everything." He went on working...