[language
warning] “On Wednesday we had our first experience with the new conversation
grading system.... I'm trying to do good work in that field in an effort to get
a job as an interpreter instead of spending my career as a language officer
behind a desk doing routine translations.
Last month I had a 91 average, which was quite a bit above anyone else
in the group - but it probably depended a lot on luck.
"Last
week we had some very amusing and interesting lessons. In one a Jap gave his impression of the
western world after a first visit to Paris and Brussels. He was astonished by the large number of keys
and from that developed his point that keys could sum up our lives from the
spiritual to the material side of living. Another good story was on the life of
Buddha, and the last story of the week was about the Magellan round-the-world
voyage."
--Letter
from my father, Boulder, Colo., to his family, Bloomington, Kans., Saturday,
July 21, 1945.
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