... the ... radio station played a Chopin polonaise. On all the following days news bulletins were prefaced by Chopin--preludes, e...tudes, waltzes, mazurkas. The war became for me a victory, known in advance, Chopin over Hitler.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We had won. Pimps got out of their polished cars and walked the streets of San Francisco only a little uneasy at the unusual exerc...ise. Gamblers, ignoring their sensitive fingers, shook hands with shoeshine boys.... Beauticians spoke to the shipyard workers, who in turn spoke to the easy ladies.... I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year. Something like a festival.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A pleasant smell of frying sausages Attacks the sense, along with an old, mostly invisible... Photograph of what seems to be girls lounging around An old fighter bomber, circa 1942 vintage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Gracious Lord, oh bomb the Germans. Spare their women for Thy Sake,... And if that is not too easy We will pardon Thy Mistake. But gracious Lord, whate'er shall be, Don't let anyone bomb me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignif...ied.... after a crise ... of hysterical revulsion and tiredness, I passed beyond ... and became entered by a rather sublime feeling.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They had supposed their formula was fixed. They had obeyed instructions to devise... A type of cold, a type of hooded gaze. But when the Negroes came they were perplexed. These Negroes looked like men....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »