How people entertained themselves in college during the 1940s.
Quote:Nicholson flew above the girls’ dormitories doing aerial acrobatics. He also dropped leaflets overhead urging the girls to “Ditch Those Wimps at Denison.” Of course, all the girls ran out on the lawn to see what was going on up in the sky. When they did, we ran into the girls’ rooms and rifled their panty drawers. They came back in and discovered they had no brassieres, shorts, or anything. We took the trophies and attached them to our cars’ antennas and drove around the campus honking our horns; we thought this was the cat’s pajamas! It was considered very daring. And to do it in conjunction with another student doing airplane stunts? Well, that was classic 1948.
- Paul Newman
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"