[PW] my traditional New Year's questions

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#6 "we should like to twist Tolstoy's remark to our own ends: socialism is the name of our desire.-Dissent, Spring 1954 (reprinted Winter 2004, The Last Page By Lewis Coser and Irving Howe) 
  
Solomons1pal at aol.com wrote:
  
Colleagues, 

In keeping with a now-ancient tradition (at least five years old), I ask the 
questions that I always ask early each year:

1. Some years ago, a Congressman's wife, making a campaign speech for her 
husband, pleaded with the audience to re-elect him, saying "He doesn't know 
how to do anything else!" Who said this, when, and where?

2. During World War II, members of the USAAF sang a song of which the 
refrain goes, "Fly low and slow, said his mother" Details of the song, please. 
Failing that, does anyone know of a source that might help me?

3. Many years ago I read somewhere the dictum, "We learn not by experience, 
but by experiment." Who wrote this? (There are many sayings that are 
somewhat similar, but I'm looking for the explicit contrast of "experience" and 
"experiment")

4. Some writer on the Anglo-American criminal justice system said somewhere 
that the trouble with it was that it was designed to keep the peace in a 
sleepy English village. Who said it, etc.?

5. I've read that there is a Spanish proverb that goes, "Take what you want 
-- and pay for it." Is there really such a proverb? (even John Dyson hasn't 
been able to answer this one, which means it's really tough)

6. The literary critic and political radical Irving Howe said, "Socialism is 
the name of our hope!" Where, when, etc?

Anyone correctly answering any of these gets a (small) box of Godiva 
chocolates. 

Mark Halpern



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