In the 20th century employers could be quite intrusive, Ford's Sociological Department being probably the best-known example. A friend whose father worked for a different company told me of periodic home visits by company representatives.
He definitely lingered on that sentence. 🙂
This is after Russell and Whitehead gave up on writing the projected fourth volume of the Principia Mathematica due to intellectual exhaustion. By this time he was apparently getting his wings back.
There's always the guano islands.
ushistoryscene.com/article/guan...
Hear me out: bathtub absinthe
Removing that one from consideration would reveal an embarrassment of riches. Great year!
That was 1942.
I was born one year later, so the answer is obligatory: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
If you want a more challenging question: what is your favorite jazz album from the year you were born?
Julian Jackson's France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
#&%@!
Oh good, someone to spring this on. 🙂
bsky.app/profile/snar...
Oh yeah, I'm going to do one of these!
You were driving a sanitation truck under the influence?
Waffle House in the PNW when?
"War in the Middle East? GET JOHN BOLTON ON THE BLOWER!"
Any list without Patti is wrong.
Most of this isn't in my wheelhouse, but one of my favorite live performance videos is Mary after being stiffed at the Grammys. "I choose to win"...legendary.
youtu.be/41JZKVYoEew?...
"favorite Jewish hip-hop band"
2 Live Jews?
That ending.
(I suspect the firearms were pistols, not revolvers.)
The quote is from Robert Gildea's Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation.
us.macmillan.com/books/978031...
Real life cafè Marseillaise scene in the early days of occupation: 'On one occasion the French stood up to sing the "Marseillaise," took the Germans' revolvers, and would not return them until the Germans, too, had stood up to sing, fists in the air.'
THE Claw
Don't discount the '83 Beirut marine barracks bombing.
Robert Gildea's Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation
us.macmillan.com/books/978031...
OK, but you have to listen to what I was listening to when I saw this post.
youtu.be/iTTfyQOqThM?...
I'll take that bet.
What was the book?
