Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suzuki had gone to a tiny country school in his home village. He had listened to his teachers tell of Japan's glorious destiny. Later, in the Army, he had been stirred by the fiery speeches of his officers. After the war, in a Japan suddenly decreed democratic, he was told that everything he had been taught before was wrong. Bewildered, he had drifted for weeks about the capital, slept in railroad stations. At times he thought of taking his own life...
Last summer, Huq failed to get a big Interim Government job despite a Congress recommendation, was naturally disappointed. When 200 Moslem students, armed with sticks and knives, politely urged him to rejoin the glorious fight for Pakistan, Huq was converted again. He made a new try for his old job as Bengal Premier, also launched a campaign to stop Mohandas Gandhi's "neighborly" preaching in Bengal. Cried Huq: "I am surprised to see Moslems in Noakhali tolerating Gandhi peacefully...
...home, not always pleasantly, to Mr. Trask on mornings when he finds himself alone down in the basement surrounded by piles and piles of tickets and posters with three phones jangling at once and someone upstairs impatiently ringing the bell at the booth. There are notices outside proclaiming the glorious fact that the Brattle Hall Theatre is sold out every night. And the hardest part of the job is not drumming up trade but conciliating ticket buyers who procrastinated too long to get the seats they wanted. To turn out a play each and every week requires considerable manipulation...
...professor was speaking of realities and their relation to the real. "It's been a glorious day--simply glorious," one of the Gray-Flannels was buzzing. "Great man, this," the Tweed-Skirt joined. "Gives you the feeling of approaching the more pro found meanings...the deeper...values of essence...
...that we ought to know about. But I feel in my bones that most of the journalists who might be competent to deal with it would regard themselves as bound by conscience to make the picture either as black or as white as possible: either to show that those glorious creatures, our industrial leaders, are fashioning for us a system ever more perfect, or else that those horrid predators, the millionaires, are fastening upon us the chains of fascism...