Word: castee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Topics included the historical and sociological development of caste system: the Negro in the army; the Negro in politics; the Negro in agriculture; the Negro in education; and the Negro in business.
At Home & Abroad. Both Stalin and Hitler use food to destroy internal opposition, reward accomplishment, punish failure, establish the class distinctions of their "new orders." In Germany the "warrior caste" of the armed forces gets the fattest ration cards, skilled and essential workmen the next. Down at the bottom come...
Standard Hollywood practice would have been to convert "Kitty Foyle," Christopher Morley's "natural history of a woman," into an innocuous boy-meets-girl romance. The verboten questions of social caste and childbirth out of wedlock might have been replaced by sticky sentimentality and irrelevant filler scenes. Ginger Rogers could...
Second; how is democracy today surviving under fire in England and the Empire? The answer is, admirably. Not only is personal liberty interfered with less than in many neutral nations, but a new spirit of solidarity and unselfishness has arisen that is inspiring to behold. The structure of old England...
But then his "withstanding" ability would just be starting, for, during the next twenty years or so he would be taught by much the same methods as are used to educate the Brahma caste of the Hindus; and his personal life would be regulated according to the gentle rules of...