Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Destiny went west. It gathered in Alaska by peaceful purchase, and Hawaii by annexation. But the real diamond of the Pacific, the Philippine Archipelago, was not for sale. It belonged to Spain, a backward oppressor. With a deep breath and a fierce face, Manifest Destiny hitched up its pants and went to war-for "Cuba libre" and a free Philippines...
...Dutch Borneo in the south. Two seasons (wet and dry) make the islands fertile and the climate debilitating; typhoons, snakes and the islands' strategic position make them dangerous. The brown and purple mountains, the beaches like white teeth, the magic water, the hectic sunsets, and above all, the deep, hushed, lusting green of the jungle make it a lotos-land-except to politicians...
Last week in the newly opened American Library at Frankfurt, whose shelves are loaded with periodicals from the U.S., earnest young Germans were deep in the study of U.S. economics, politics, geography and literature. None was more rapt in concentration than a thin, hungry-looking youth bending over a slick, glossy magazine in the corner. "I came here," he explained, "looking for a geographical magazine, but I picked up this one. I couldn't resist the temptation...
...offspring of the herd mind-the odious militia. . . ." After Hitler, his thoughts became somewhat more martial. He is also a Zionist ("The Jew is most happy if he remains a Jew"), an internationalist ("Nationalism is the measles of mankind"). Einstein claims that he is a religious man ("Every really deep scientist must necessarily have religious feeling"). But he does not believe in the immortality of the soul...
...annual liquor bill runs between seven and eight billion dollars. Our crime bill amounts to 15 billions a year. . . . We refuse to face race problems. There are 13 million American Negroes who are only enjoying a second-rate citizenship. . . . And we don't have to look to the deep South to find people who believe in the supremacy of the white race...