Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disprove the accusations of treason, sabotage and fomenting world revolution hurled against absent Leon Trotsky during the last mass treason trial in Soviet Russia. Because he felt that the committee of professional liberals from the U. S. heading the trial was unduly influenced in Trotsky's favor, Author Carleton Beals, authority on Central America, resigned in disgust. By last week the committee had proved nothing at all, but to a packed house Professor Dewey was able...
...title and its challenge Author Armstrong accepts from a speech of Mussolini's (1930): "The struggle between two worlds [democracy and fascism] can permit no compromise. . . . Either we or they!" To this ugly Duce-ism. Editor Armstrong soberly agrees, resoundingly replies with a statement of the American position which no American has yet so well expressed...
...strongly sympathizes with her hero, who says: "I know something most folks don't seem to know. I know this world is full of the damnedest sweetest people a man would ever hope to meet." Not everybody in Neighbor to the Sky could be called sweet, but both Author Carroll and her hero reach their last-page goal without changing their minds. Like her earlier novels of Maine (As the Earth Turns, A Few Foolish Ones), Author Carroll's latest is as sound and sweet as a good Baldwin apple...
...ranging in 1918, and Robert Legins to reveal to us his personality which before we were only able to hint at from the references cast his way. He is struggling with the hardships of awkardness and self-consciousness so trying to a boy in the early teens. The author describes his feelings and his trials with the utmost tenderness and sympathy, yet giving us a faithful picture. The tragic scenes which follow on the heels of the opening chapter come to us at first through the mind of Robert and later through that of his father...
...allowed his own thoughts and amusements. Dinner table conversations of parents which pass beyond the comprehension of the younger generation, indignation and tears which result from the tantalizing of the older brother, all are described with a fidelity which creates in the reader, the author's own emotions...