Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best type of Englishman," feel uncomfortable and ineffectual in their dealings with the legalistically impeccable but personally over-intense Jewish leaders, represented in the book by the Zionist Executive member, Glickstein. The British naturally favor the Arabs, over whom they feel comfortably superior along "the white man's burden" lines, and whose colorful tribal customs and indifferent air appeal to their more romantic nature. Koestler's British Commissioner admits to the "impartial observer," an American correspondent, that he sees the incongruity in the Arab desire to seel their land to Jews at fabulous prices, on the one hand, and Arab...
Today, with only 10 or 15 applications coming in each week, a new applicant is immediately offered a choice of residence--the Brunswick Hotel, in Copley Square in Boston; or Harvardevens Village, 32 miles from Cambridge. It is these new housing projects that are bearing the brunt of the burden...
...railroads, there can be no effective communications. . . . With Nationalist forces in control of the main lines below the Great Wall, with cities free, some measures of recovery can go forward. Continued Communist guerrilla warfare will not permit the Government to relieve a long-suffering people of an overheavy military burden, but it will at the least mean unity...
From the viewpoint of University finances these proposed raises do involve a burden. But the Business Department can surely see the justice in paying the same wages for the same work. And it should not be too difficult to foresee the decline of many of the services of the College if the student help are not granted real and substantial assistance...
...work has been informed with an acute and very private sense of Doom. But in his maturer poems, and now in "All The King's Men," Warren has translated this vision of Evil into one of religious affirmation. Willie Stark is corrupted and dies, but through his death Jack Burden finds a love and happiness he had never known. In this does Willie Stark fulfill his own transposition of the Biblical story of the grain of wheat: "good must come out of bad." Surely a knowledge of Evil is the first step on the road to Grace...