Word: words
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever so imperceptibly, Rickover smiled and delivered the last word. "It's all right to talk about peace. Now you go home and do something about...
Around the 4th Infantry Division noncommissioned officers' club at Fort Lewis, Wash. last winter, the word was out: "See Coogan if you want to go overseas," maybe to a cushy assignment in Paris. Sergeant First Class William Coogan, at 38 a sharp-looking, 14-year regular with a good record, had the expert and ready assistance of Specialist Fifth Class George B. Huller, at 23 a six-year man with an equally fine record, on duty as a personnel clerk at division headquarters. Theirs was the job of filling in the names when Pentagon orders called for overseas billets...
...payment plan" when seven G.I.s promised $185 to get a buddy to Korea. In six months, the red-faced Army admitted last week, Coogan-Huller cleared $1,750 from ten soldiers, in all shipped at least 18 to chosen places abroad, had four customers ready to travel when the word-of-mouth ad campaign reached one ear too many...
...Viola-Aguecheek duel is lengthy (there must be five minutes without a word), but hilarious all the way. And to inspirit the combatants, Berghof has his Dancing Zany beat a drum during the dueling--an historically authentic touch. There are many other instances of inspired staging. And at the end, instead of having everyone exit and leave Feste alone to sing the closing song, Berghof brings everybody on stage, even Malvolio, and has each principal sing a solo bit as in a massed opera buffa finale...
...Faith to Sell. Why are these lessons neglected and demeaned in the contemporary world? The U.S.. Bruckberger argues, has forgotten how to sell itself. The image of America is marred by the treatment of the Negro and by the fact that the U.S. calls itself "capitalist," a word much of the world finds synonymous with exploitation. Yet it is not Marxist theory that enables Russia and China to pose as saviors of underdeveloped lands but the application of U.S. technology. As Bruckberger sees it, the U.S. should back its know-how with a proselytizing faith...