Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a look at your cover of Feb. 2, I shudder that the affairs of our nation are in the hands of these men. Before learning their identity, I thought that in view of the oncoming baseball season you had dug skeletons out of the bleachers of old Ebbets Field...
...third Identity is surprisingly pleasant. With one exception, its verse is successful in its relative simplicity, free from many of the pretensions which so often encumber undergraduate poetry. Its poems deal mainly with the brilliance of love and the relative uselessness of pedantry, a happy thought for the tag end of winter...
...suspense, gives countless students insomnia and nervous jitters. If, however, the benign American military were interested in the mental stability of its potential servitors, it could either declare for a policy of Universal Military Training or for the establishment of a professionally attractive standing army. Neither thought seems to have much appeal for the Pentagon, possibly because the Joint Chiefs of Staff are less interested in the mental condition of American youth than they are in obtaining a "reasonable" level of military spending...
...even if it could survive a debate on the scale of that which accompanied the first such proposal in 1953 and 1954, would cost a chunk of cash. The Cordiner pay scale contemplated a first-year increase in expenditure of $650 million, though the committee thought that in four to six years the plan would decrease in expense and might even be cheaper than the present system in the long...
...cousin, "Gertrude was an exceedingly attractive buxom young woman of seventeen, quick thinking and speaking, original in ideas and manner, with a capacity of humor so deep that you found yourself laughing at every thing she found amusing, even yourself. Leo made you uncomfortable, you always felt he thought you were ridiculous...Everybody was attracted to Gertrude--men, women and children, our German maids, the Negro laundresses, even casual acquaintances she talked to on long walks we used to take in the country...