Dot the dinner lady, I salute you – how I wish I'd asked for the recipe, instead of just seconds.
"By manners I mean not here decency of behavior, as how one man should salute another, or how a man should wash his mouth or pick his teeth before company, and such other points of small morals, but those qualities of mankind that concern their living together in peace and unity".
The genius of Kafka is that he evokes so much: the mechanized corporate world sanctifying and saluting itself; how one accounts for atrocity; the tedium and ritual of bureaucracy; the pain and pathology of memory; how our most clever institutions and devices can betray us.
Elliott read the script to ensure it was realistic, ran military drills, taught the cast how to salute all ranks and how to hold rifles correctly.
Mr. Maazel saluted back: "How can I ever express my gratitude, the depth of the debt I owe the V.P.O. for the unwavering support they have tendered me since Day 1 of our musical bonding?" Day 1 came in 1962, when Mr. Maazel — who turns 82 on Tuesday and was then already a well traveled maestro — filled in for an indisposed Herbert von Karajan.
Here, for three hot summer weeks, we memorized the Articles of War and learned how to stand at attention, how to salute, and, through training films, how to recognize the Japanese "Betty" bomber, the German ME-109 fighter, and the impartial, skulking gonococcus, all at a glance.
dthomas21 asks: What is your response to Phil Anselmo's Nazi salute, and how can we work to eradicate racism from metal?
Furtwängler never conducted at a Nuremberg rally, but he did perform the night before a Nuremberg rally; and if he was smart enough, confronted with the Führer, to keep his baton in his right hand and thus find an excuse not to give the Nazi salute, well, how smart was he to be pouring his transcendent gifts into such unsuitable ears in the first place?
He has learned how to salute.
He had never been told precicely how to salute.
The biggest name among them is Tony Lake (third), Mr Clinton's national security adviser, who taught the ex-president how to salute and who toiled to bring peace to the Balkans.
