Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Langdon-Davies' political reporting presents a conventional Leftist picture, his casual digressions on Spanish temperament, Spanish intellectuals, anarchists, dancing, Barcelona slums, are fresh and vivid. Best is his account of a visit, before the revolution, to Barcelona's vice-ridden Fifth District. Although he had "read about everything in Havelock Ellis and Freud," when he encountered the spectacle of perversities for sale he found his imagination could not grasp the social reality. Opposed to this grim description of "the most tragic human cantonment in Europe," are his reminiscences of a great syndicalist convention he attended in Zaragoza before...
...Year let me renominate England s Edward. This enamored near middle-ager who flouts the public opinion of a nation of conservative sourpusses, and who to cap the climax says he will up and marry the girl is out and ahead of the field in the modern sport of casual iconoclasm. As such he deserves the regained prestige your title must bestow...
Private tutoring schools, like private business of any sort, thrive under competition. It is this very competition which insures the casual or regular patron surprisingly high standards, and usually full value for the price demanded. For this reason the denunciation of private tutoring by the University and the substitution of college-run reviews would probably fail to approach the standards set under the present system. Monopoly has a tendency to deteriorate and there is no reason to expect the University to be exempt from this law. Therefore, the ideal would seem to be a set standard for tutoring, approved...
...lung. He discovers Negroid and Indian traits in our mentality while he doesn't see that the Negroes, Indians and we whites have been molded by the same American environment. He accuses Mr. Roosevelt of "the Mussolini substance" while it should be evident even to the most casual observer that Mr. Roosevelt is following in his whole career the best traditions of American statesmanship; and that-and this conclusion is directly due to Dr. Jung's own theories!-the American people would not be so overwhelmingly confident in Mr. Roosevelt, particularly not the intellectual strata, if there...
...suspicion that the female names therein are not the names of horses-and his brother-in-law's belief that they are horses and that he has made a fortune betting on them-Oiwin gets drunk. In the bar of the Lavillere Hotel he gives a casual race-tip to three starving horse-players-Charlie (Allen Jenkins), Patsy (Sam Levene) and Frankie (Teddy Hart). He is being sick offstage during those moments when the selections in his small black book, heavily backed by his new friends, come romping home. What happens after his return from...