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...dishwasher in the lean year of 1934 when his eye was caught by an announcement of exams for new police recruits. Schrotel passed easily, soon was assigned to night patrol duty in a scout car, and fell in love with his job. He still talks unabashedly of his "genuine thrill at the romance and adventure the position offered...
...studded with frustrated performers who yearn for a chance to sing with a full symphony orchestra, toot a hot horn with a jazz combo, or play with a professional chamber group. Now they can do all three without ever leaving their homes. The missing thrill is provided by a Manhattan recording company called Music Minus One, which does 90% of its business in releases from which a voice or a single instrument has been purposely omitted...
...shaped the philosophic attitudes of his works if the entire climate of intellectual history had not prepared an audience for him. The 20th century was primed for a philosophy of concrete things rather than abstract ideas, was ready for a psychology of sensations-for the brute fact, the tactile thrill, the stream of sensuousness that inundate the pages of Hemingway...
...standard reactions to a career of academic abandon--the reaction of an upholder of the course system who urges adjustment to it, and that of a fellow student who, dutiful himself, finds a vicarious thrill in the freedom of his friend and urges him on in his "defiance." Academic abandon, therefore, is subject to these contradictory pressures, both of them irrelevant to its spirit, both seeing only the fact of rejection--the one disapproving, the other sanctioning. Neither, however, understands the positive impulse of academic abandon, for to one the phenomenon is simply a malfunctioning of the system; while...
...pace, Murdock will make good, with time to spare, on his ambition to run a $100 million operation. Few of his friends expect him to stop there. Says one: "David is after more than money. Just what it is. I don't know." Murdock thinks he does. "The thrill of achievement," he says, "is to me as the shot is to the dope addict. You may beat me, but I'll come back and come back and come back until I beat you or drop dead...