Word: tubfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hall began to doubt the cloud theory when he watched squids discharging their ink. It does not form a cloud for a considerable time, but hangs together as a dark, viscous mass. To learn more, Hall experimented with a small captive squid in a light-colored wooden tub. When his hand approached it, the squid changed color rapidly, as squids do. Just before Hall grabbed for it, it turned dark-and Hall found himself squidless. He had grabbed a blob of ink-darkened water. The real squid, now light-colored, was safe at the far side of the tub...
Steiner's platoon is a batch of human putty. Among them are: trusty, pipe-smoking Schnurrbart, a born second-in-command; Dietz, a mamma's boy with the puppy-dog look; Dorn, an overage misclassified philosophy professor; Kern, a blowhard rookie; and Zoll, a pornography-minded tub of lard. "Anyone who gives out is going to be left behind," Steiner warns them. When their rations give out, Steiner tells them to eat tree bark, but he also shares the last of his own rations. When Dietz is critically wounded in a night skirmish, it is Steiner who holds...
...these things function as advertised. Yet the existence of the Wine Sippers adds little to the lives of beer drinkers; claw--feet do little to reconcile a bath-tub to one desiring a shower; the dining hall, however much better than the rest, still must cook on a budget, which contributes some of the evils of the Central Kitchen; the high-powered brains are of little general utility; the English collection's excellence is of little use to science concentrators, the washing machines are insignificant if one wants clothes ironed...
Savage Indignation. In an age of savage politics, he was the most savage, in such withering satires as A Tale of a Tub and A Modest Proposal. When he fought, says Biographer Murry, "he bit like a badger till his teeth met." Men feared him, and three women loved him. Pride, it seems, forbade him to give them a man's love in return. With a lunatic idealism, he could not forgive them for having the natural functions common to all humans...
...leave it to the others who are much better informed. But one thing is certain, and that is, when one is treating social relations as they exist in America today, the world situation should make him stop and reflect along with Dean Swift in a Tale of a Tub, that, "...When a man's fancy gets astride of his Reason, when Imagination is at Cuffs with the Senses, and common Understanding, as well as common Sense is kicked out Doors; the first Proselyte he makes is Himself, and when that is once compasse'd, the Difficulty is not so great...