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Even apart from the images of the Rocky Mountain states which are likely to alienate East Coast dwellers—those of bumpkin right-wingers who are to the right of Barry Goldwater—it is undeniable that the vast majority of people here do not share a culture with the East Coast. My own freelanced education was something grossly different than a St. Albans one—characterized by reading books outside of the classroom and dabbling in local politics. Other Montanans who didn’t have the luxury of living in “the city?...
...give sex a good name in a context of a lifestyle magazine.? How very true. Playboy wasn?t just about the sex. It was about being accepted by the arbiters of 50s middle-browism. That brow has disappeared. Now there?s a tiny high-brow culture and a vast low- or no-brow one. Playboy and Hef stayed in the center that did not hold...
...pulled out one of those little spring hand exercisers. And then he reached into the same drawer with his other hand and pointed to a small paper box the size of a jewelry box. With one hand pumping, smiling broadly, he lifted the lid. The music started, filling the vast room. It was Sousa, loud and brassy and in your face: Stars and Stripes Forever...
...liberation of Europe. It was a campaign that put American soldiers side by side with British, not always with happy results. Many of the British were veterans of the battles against Rommel in the Western Desert. They considered themselves hardened campaigners and thought the G.I.s amateurs. The Americans expended vast quantities of ammunition to gain ground and expected air support in every attack. They were also much more generously equipped than the British, regarded luxuries as necessities and seemed to have money to burn. American privates were better paid than British junior officers...
...soldier, product of a peculiar country. His two outstanding characteristics seem to be contradictory. He is more of an individualist than soldiers of other nations, and at the same time he is far more conscious of, and dependent on, teamwork. He fights as he lives, a part of a vast, complicated machine--but a thinking, deciding part...