Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nowhere in his work has this fusion been more fully realized than in "All The King's Men," It is a story told through the person of Jack Burden-- newspaper man, intellectual, and above all, cynic. A man of intelligence whose life has been largely wasted, symbol of the sterility and deracination of modern man who can find nothing on which to center his life and thereby lend it meaning. But although he tells it, the story is not Jack Burden's, it is Willie Stark's, the mock-heroic man of the people whose earnestness "to do good...
...Burden on the Masses. Taking his cue from Generalissimo Stalin's recent statement (TIME, Oct. 7), one Dr. Lund, a Moscow radio commentator, last week ironically offered his sympathies to U.S. taxpayers: "Keeping this huge $16 billion military budget . . . will mean a terrible burden on the masses. . . ." Pravda reported that unemployment was growing in the U.S., that only "huge Government expenditures on war needs" along with slow demobilization kept it in check...
...lighten the burden of such Empire-building philoprogenitiveness as the Naylors', William Pitt 150 years ago suggested that Parliament contribute to the support of large poor families. Nothing was done about it until 1942, when Sir William Beveridge's "Womb to Tomb" plan prodded a census-minded government to action. In 1945, a month before the Labor Party came to power, the family allowance plan became...
...lists, upon which each man will be assigned a number, eliminating the bottleneck producing procedure of signing for meals. Commencement of classes will also tend to stagger at least the breakfast and luncheon lines, and the opening of the new graduate dining hall in Vansert Hall Monday eases the burden still further...
...statistics showing approximately how great that burden is were cited by Bradford. Over 1500 men are served at each meal, yet chowline-weary veterans were informed that no man, according to a survey taken yesterday, stands in line over nine minutes. "That's about as much as we can expect right now," Bradford added...