Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would this year get back to exporting a large wheat surplus for the first time since 1931. The Department of Agriculture last week reported the smallest world wheat surplus in nine years. Modifying its crop reduction-soil conservation program in the emergency, AAA announced that farmers in the East Central States who had planted land to unprofitable soil-building crops could sow enough food and feed crops to bring their production up to normal, get their Government bounties just the same...
...will be very proper to entrust this agency to the central organization of the Catholic action...
...seriousness could hardly be prepared for the calm didactic tone with which Eyeless in Gaza begins. The title comes from Milton's line, "Eyeless in Gaza, at the mill, with slaves," and the author announces his story as that of "a number of attempts to achieve liberty." The central character's life, Huxley says, shows "how easy it is for a man, by nature gentle, sensitive and without consuming passions, to be betrayed by weakness and evasion into disgraceful acts pregnant with the worst consequences." Eye-fass in Gaza is written in a choppy, experimental fashion which seems...
...central character is Anthony Beavis, a dark-haired, full-lipped individual who looks like a meditative child. His particular artistic dislike is Proust, for he considers Proust's absorption with the past repellent and perverse. Anthony is living with resentful, brown-haired Helen Ledwidge in the south of France when the story opens, and he has, Author Huxley establishes with his backward glances, good reasons for avoiding a clear look at his own past behavior. Helen and Anthony are making carefree love on the roof when a grotesque accident violently deflects the course of their lives. A dog falls...
...fashioned, romantic narrative with no Joycean or Proustian nonsense about it, the novel is written in a methodical style which fastidious readers may find wearying. But so carefully does Author Mitchell build up her central character of Scarlett O'Hara, and her picture of the times in which that wild woman struggled, that artistic lapses seem scarcely more consequential than Scarlett's many falls from grace. The daughter of a successful Irish immigrant and a kindly, aristocratic mother, Scarlett was a handsome, high-spirited, high-bosomed, green-eyed little devil. Living the artificial life of a plantation beauty...