Civil Affairs in Popular Media
- A Bell for Adano (movie) and A Bell for Adano (Pulitzer Prize winning novel by John Hersey) depict a U.S. military government officer in occupied Italy during World War II.
- The Teahouse of the August Moon (play), The Teahouse of the August Moon (novel), and The Teahouse of the August Moon (film) depict U.S. military government personnel in occupied Okinawa during World War II. These were also adapted into the 1970 musical Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen.
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“Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.”
—Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39–65)
“Men are the managers of the affairs of women
for that God has preferred in bounty
one of them over another, and for that
they have expended of their property.
Righteous women are therefore obedient,
guarding the secret for God’s guarding.
And those you fear may be rebellious
admonish; banish them to their couches,
and beat them.”
—Qur’An. Women 4:38, ed. Arthur J. Arberry (1955)
“People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher—a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It’s the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
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—Marianne E. Neifert (20th century)