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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tiny, weatherbeaten shack back of the sand dunes, and we can peek at the ocean by stretching our necks a bit. Our neighbors are a motley crew: mostly men who seek only escape from their pasts, their responsibilities, or their sins. Whatever the reason, they've found some sort of peace here on the beach. Until we began ?o circulate among them with our books and magazines, there was an undeclared war constantly going on. One had built a 10 ft. fence to keep out prying passersby; one was a grouchy old codger who'd scare you with...
...curious to find some of this sort of putty in the middle of a university. Your education may confuse you, it may mislead you, it may shake up your ideas and turn them upside down, but one thing it wouldn't be expected to do is leave you blank and malleable...
...then sent before the Brigade Aptitude Board, consisting of senior officers and a psychologist, who investigate the case thoroughly, and then pass it on to higher channels involving the Commandant, Superintendent, the heads of all academic departments, and finally the Secretary of War. It can only be imagined what sort of shape this process leaves the suspected student in, but one might guess that his dynamic qualities might be even more impaired in the course of investigation...
...grandiloquent language, the heroic characters, the poetic prose that on re-examination turns out to be well-nigh meaningless. Its failure is so complete in this respect that it may be that Sandburg's greatest service to American literature will be to have ended this sort of imaginative effort-"the great American novel"-once...
Throughout Remembrance Rock there are the sort of things one has come to expect from Sandburg-the jokes and popular songs, the historical information on revival meetings and freight rates, the extemporaneous prayers, some of which are simple and moving. A book composed of them might actually have been what Remembrance Rock attempted...