Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sure that steamships and locomotives would be still figments of diseased imaginations if Louis XVI had escaped at Varenne's. Emil Ludwig gives a very interesting description of Germany if the Emperor Frederick had not died of cancer in 1888. Unfortunately he is unable to resist the temptation for cheap dramatic effect to which he so frequently falls a prey even in what one might call his more scholarly commentaries. He allows Kaiser William II to assume the throne August 1, 1914 amidst "peace and prosperity...
...should be so worded as to emphasize not the conventional heroics about honor and glory, but the spirit of sacrifice and the pacific intent of those who died fighting, paradoxical though it be. Thus the chapel could be the very embodiment of the spirit of universality, a transcending of cheap nationalism...
...help sales, the bidders were given "cheap rates" at Leningrad's Hotel Europe: $15 per person per day for room & meals...
There is no sound motivation in "Elizabeth the Queen" and little attempt to develop a strikingly dramatic situation. Instead the author resorted to rather cheap heroics and shoddy situations to carry the power. The last scene, for carry the power. The last scene, for example, where Elizabeth decides that England means more to her than the life of her lover has real dramatic strength and poignancy. But the drama dwindles off into labored phrases and district hysteria; not the kind of situation one usually associates with Elizabethan gestures...
...wishes, he will do extra, intensive work. "What we are planning for the Yale of the future," said Professor French, "is not a system, but a life." Of the men who will be leaders in this life, he says: "We are not looking for the sort . . . who courts cheap popularity with his students, nor for the man who will conceive of his position either as that of Captain of the Boy Scouts or as that of a genial host at a protracted house party." He will wield a "civilizing influence." But ultimate authority will rest, as it has heretofore...