Word: vag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vag thought Youth is always told that it should pay great respect to Age and it always does, but inside it usually shrugs or maybe even sneers and if it does have a feeling of respect it is only because of an externally imposed habit and not because of an honest spontaneous sentiment. Usually, perhaps, but that was not so tonight. In these surroundings it was impossible not to feel something like awe for that figure slowly getting up to cut the cake...
...queer thing, jealousy, Vag mused. It sits behind the scenes like old Stockmar, doing its work silently. Rarely does anyone see it operate; even those whom it tears apart are sometimes not conscious of it until too late. Vaguely, Vag remembered reading of termites who burrow unseen within a beautiful and apparently strong house; then, suddenly, the house collapses. It was something like that with people. Jealousy, like a poison--perhaps like a cancer; but worse, since a cancer, if discovered early, can be cured--constantly, subtly tries to gain acceptance in the mind. Once the entering wedge is injected...
...there a remedy? Often, Vag realized, the "green-eyed monster" had attacked him, once with disastrous results. He smiled as he recalled that tragic childhood romance. What could be done in the future? Suddenly Vag remembered that the world's greatest dramatist had had something to say on the subject. Something world famous, in fact; something probably never equalled in the realm of dramatic expression. Vag decided to hear Professor Theodore J. Spencer at 11 o'clock today in Harvard 5, on "Othello, Moor of Venice...
About one hundred years old, Vag reflected, is the spirit of German unity. Writers had preceded the 30s, to be sure, and students in the radical universities had given Metternich many a violent headache with their liberal ideas; but only then did they begin to succeed in their boring from within. They succeeded, ideologically; but not in 1830, nor even in 1848, did the Reich become a reality. Not until 1852, when a pilot with ideals of blood and iron took over. And not until 18 years later, when the Prussian army marched into Paris...
Over France today is the spectre of another march on Paris, another siege, another occupation. Worse still, there is peril from the air. But a "peace" worse than Versailles? Excusable, under any circumstances? Practical? Suddenly Vag decided to brush up on his background facts, and resolved to go to Harvard 6 this noon to hear Donald C. McKay on "Bismarck and the Unification of Germany...