Word: civile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unlike those of the European democracies, were not identified with a particular section or class? How was it possible, Bryce wanted to know, for two great nationwide organizations to fight as bitterly as did the Republicans & Democrats over the Hayes-Tilden election, without plunging the country into civil...
Last week, with The Politicos, Matthew Josephson joined the ranks of the puzzlers. His contribution was a 760-page volume that attempted a dual task: 1) to trace the careers of the Democratic and Republican parties through the four decades after the Civil War; 2) to draw a composite portrait of the professional politicians, party leaders, spoilsmen, local bosses...
...early U. S. capitalists, The Robber Barons (1934), Josephson wrote of men who "spoke little and did much"-Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Collis Huntington, Morgan, Rockefeller. In The Politicos he writes of men who did as little as possible and spoke all too much. For the period after the Civil War saw the flowering of the spellbinders, the men who, when trapped in some snide deal, escaped by waving the bloody shirt, denouncing Jeff Davis, pulling out all the stops in tearful eulogies to the Union dead...
...Journeys Between Wars, Dos Passos has taken selections from these two books, brought them up to date with a section on the civil war in Spain, and with the inclusion of accounts of trips to Mexico and Russia, made the book a unified volume of 394 pages covering his travels over 20 years. It is spattered with characteristic Dos Passos splashes of color, like his description of his first glimpse of Toledo: "Against the grey and ochrestreaked theatre of the Cigarrales were piled masses of buttressed wall that caught the orange sunset light on many tall plane surfaces rising into...
...guns only to shoot strangers, while the Arabs were always squabbling among themselves and were very nice to strangers." Hating high-flown sentiments in all forms (he read Juvenal on the way to Damascus, did not like it because "I smell rhetoric"), he grows eloquent only about the Spanish civil war. After seeing Madrid under siege, feeling uncomfortable talking to soldiers because he could remember how he felt when journalists visited the front during the War, Dos Passes left Spain profoundly depressed: "How can they win? . . . How can the new world full of confusion and crosspurposes and illusions and dazzled...