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...have been realized. A joke gets known more widely and more rapidly than a philosophy thesis, and as such, the movement has swept the nation's campuses. But it is at this point that the Veterans of Future Wars need a solid foundation under them. That foundation must be utter seriousness, thinly veiled by the humor of the idea, and not vice versa. As an example, a Future War Veteran kept up his front against the ridicule of a Congressman in Washington and asked, in all seriousness, how to go about lobbying...
Unwarranted increases in salaries, the utter disregard of personal expense for which the executive department is notorious, are two of the cesspools into which the taxpayers' money drains. Another and more insidious one is the creation by a generous legislature of wildcat administrative boards, for which no other excuse can be found except the legislators wish to help their friends and constituents. Such a typical parasite's paradise is the lately conceived board of regulation for hair-dressers, which starts its career with a request for $18,000 for personal services, and $13-800 for travel--for the thirteen members...
...events that have happened in Japan (see p. 23) are not likely to make any one wish to encourage the political activity of Army officers. . . . But what has happened in Japan merely put into high relief the utter unreality of General Hagood's offense. He was not conducting an agitation. He was not forcing his opinions on Congress. On the contrary, he was speaking in private and by invitation to the very civil authorities from whom an officer ought to conceal none of his opinions...
...less obtrusive in Friesen than in Joyce; Peter's dreams are portrayed with such reality that they can scarcely be distinguished from his waking existence; thought conversations that never take place, strange interludes that are quite as believable as any O'Neill ever conceived; there is a complete and utter surrender on the part of the author to the emotions he portrays, and the result is an amazing, complete, and very powerful book
Alded and abetted by Ethel Merman, whose singing is almost as bad as Cantor's, the beauteous Sally Eilers, and stooge Parkyakarkus, Eddie's latest certainly affords your ticket's worth of amusement. The utter impossibility of the last fifteen minutes of trick photography does not detract from its being darn funny and surprisingly breath-taking...