Word: yourselfing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the point of view of the United States, I suggest that such a policy would be in keeping with a Chinese maxim, quoted by Robert Payne in a biography of Mac Tse-tung. "Know yourself, know enemy: hundred battles, hundred victories." Lorentz W. Hansen '52
In the U.S. it was a time of literary rebellion which came like a rude but welcome belch after a dull and heavy meal. Among the loudest belchers were famed Critics H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan. At a Manhattan party one night, "Red" Lewis drunkenly embraced Mencken and...
"I Was All Alone." Unhappy, scared and wishing he had never left Bayonne, Popko was loaded onto a truck with 60 other G.I.s, and started along dusty "Cavalry Boulevard" toward the Naktong river front. Says Popko: "After the first couple of days we got to be pretty good. We learned...
Camptown had 4,276 homes and they were all the same. Each living room had a picture window and a real wood-burning fireplace. Upstairs was an expansion attic ("You have the joy of finishing the second floor yourself"). The master bedroom was a barnlike 10 ft. by 11½...
In The Thirteen Clocks, Thurber's narrative is less bedizened with verbal gimcrackery, but it is still a bit too tricky for every taste. Nevertheless, there is no living author who moves about in fairyland with such wit and easy familiarity. As for inner meanings, please yourself.