Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oxie and Lane have been sent out on tour, to New York and Washington. A sample of Oxie's style and philosophy: "Congress is bending an ear to the farmers, to the unions, to the veterans, to the big shots, to this bloc and that group. I wish some time somebody would rise up in the House and holler ... a kind word for the miscellaneous lugs like Oxie O'Rourke. . . . But I'm afraid the other lobbyists would gang up on us, claiming we was un-American...
...strongly against what he termed clerical fascism and bureaucracy in this country. The British system of selecting children and training them from youth to hold positions in government, was also upheld by him, in contrast to this country's policy of supplying such training in colleges for those who wish to avail themselves of it. He did not specify whether this selection was to be based upon intelligence or caste...
...last week's final word on the jet plane came from its designer, slight, dark, publicity-shy Group Captain Whittle: "I am completely embarrassed. Damn it, I wish I had been a doctor...
When the Japs struck Pearl Harbor, handsome Willis Manning Thomas had a staff job. More than anything else then he wanted to get into action in his branch of the service-the submarines. Tommy got his wish, became commanding officer of the submarine Pompano, on which he had served before as executive. Tommy said good-by to his wife and two daughters and was off across the Pacific to the hunting grounds around Japan...
...which, however, the first clause has always remained obscure to me. . . . But the other two clauses are luminous, and have taught me from the first to conceive omnificent power and eternal truth. ... I have reasserted them, in my mature philosophy. . . . They belong to human sanity, to human orthodoxy; I wish to cling to that, no matter from what source its expression may come, or encumbered with what myths. The myths dissolve: the presuppositions of intelligence remain and are necessarily confirmed by experience, since intelligence awoke precisely when sensibility began to grow relevant to external things...