After feasting on much steak, creamed spinach, and dirty martini's while watching the older business set woo young college girls at The Palm Joe and I walked to the BSO where we saw Alfred Brendel perform Mozart's Piano concerto in D. It was beautiful accept for after each break in the music. The whole of the concert hall would breakout in a loud and continuous death rattle of coughing.
The T ride home of course proved tedious yet oddly entertaining, as rich BU girls scantily clad in 10 degree weather complained of how cold they were and all the different countries they were going to get their boyfriend's, girlfriend's, and parent's to pay for them to visit. Not quite sure who this behavior is cute too? But, it must work since she "Sarah of the T ride" is going to Prague, then D.C., and Chile, and had several avid listeners and a whole train load of forced listeners. My favorite statement of the night " it is so cold! Cold like hell, wow it is so cold like hell". Not sure what our country or our religious teachings are coming to if people now think hell is cold. Or maybe she is just suffering malapropism and has confused hell freezing over for the proverbial hell as being an inferno. Well what do you expect from BU? A student from BU once came to me asking what "Nazis" stood for, since she did not believe her professor. I asked her what her professor had told her. She said," He told me it was a term that Churchill used in a speech and it stuck." So maybe these students are not to blame.
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From the Oxford English Dictionary:
Nazi
A. n.
1. A member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (now hist.); a member of any similar organization. Also more generally, usu. in pl.: the German government or armed forces in the period 1933-45 (now hist.).
1930 Times 19 May 13 In another encounter after midnight a ‘Nazi’ shot two Communists dead with an automatic revolver. 1930 Times 19 Sept. 10/1 Herr Hitler, the leader of the victorious National-Socialists (Nazis), has very carefully refrained from saying anything. 1931 W. LEWIS Hitler 57 The Democrats..have not been able to deal with the Nazi because of his Mastery of the Street. 1938 Sun (Baltimore) 6 Sept. 1/3 The center of Santiago was kept in turmoil after Chilean Nazis..seized the National University. 1941 H. G. WELLS You can't be too Careful V. ii. 245 The Russians, falling back slowly upon their main line of defence, ‘scorching the earth’ before this last convulsive thrust of the Nazi. 1956 A. H. COMPTON Atomic Quest i. 7 The Nazis saw in the atomic bomb the possibility of a new weapon of decisive importance. 1988 M. DUNFORD & J. HOLLAND Real Guide Amsterdam (1989) II. i. 62 In May 1940, however, the Nazis invaded, sealing off the Jodenhoek as a ghetto.
Nope. No Churchill here. Oy!
Yes, some of the teachings at BU are rather circumspect. I could tell you stories about BU that would make most of the girls in Boink blush. But I will save them for another time.
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