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...characteristic of an open society. Throughout the years, value has been placed upon "giving one's best" and "doing a good job." The Communists will not be suppressed with bows and arrows, but whether it be at Cape Canaveral in a laboratory or at home before the kitchen sink, giving one's best will help...
...Wald's In Love and War he picked up a field telephone up front in battle, said: "Good morning. This is World War II.'' As for television: "I think their spoon-feeding of the American public has resulted in a corruption and an ignorance that may sink this country," says Sahl solemnly. He wants, however, to destroy all the admen and network executives who have kept him at harm's length and most of the time...
Those who do not know what it is like to wallow in a sink of oujamaflick will be enlightened by the sad story of Harry ("Dinger") Bell, child soldier of the Queen...
...peculiar British institution, half open-air reformatory and half military kindergarten, known as Army Boys' Technical Training Battalion. "Belsen" is his name for Hurlingford, the battalion's base, and his judgment on civilian life is "oujamaflick"-his word for "iniquity," which the outside world is a sink of. Dinger Bell is the narrator-hero of an autobiographical novel by an Englishman who himself became an "apprentice" soldier at 14. As he remembers it, "the junior intake" at Hurlingford is possibly the most pathetic body of British men-at-arms since Justice Shallow filled his draft quota with village...
...without that gifted writer's savage humor. His story is wired to the tangled nerve ends of the collection of oddballs and misfits who stumbled in unrelieved bewilderment through The Field of Vision, including a sagging, dyspeptic housewife who stands weepingly on varicose-veined legs over the kitchen sink lamenting the candy-box sweetheart she never was, and her father, a mad old man of 90 who sits alone in a ghost town reliving the Death Valley days and Indian burials he never saw. Morris employs a vocabulary of extravagant and irritating symbolism; the characters ruminate at length about...