Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Farago's first issue featured sober articles on U.N.'s Military Staff Committee, the plans to broaden Britain's traditionally upper-crust Foreign Office, and Russia's efforts to dominate civil aviation in Eastern Europe. But Corps Diplomatique still seems most at home in its social column, "Embassy Row," served up with heady whiffs of the old monde élégant: "The other day we met Baroness van Boetzelaer in what Milton called the best company: alone. . . . Emerson's wisdom that art teaches us manners and abolishes haste attains its perfect example...
...schedule of new transatlantic air fares drawn up by the International Air Transport Association last February became a scrap of paper last week. The Civil Aeronautics Board, which has the final word for U.S. airlines, refused to approve...
Hammond's diary was edited by Amherst's English Professor George F. Whicker, biographer of Emily Dickinson (This Was a Poet). Writes he: ". . . We are prone to belittle what colleges [before the Civil War] were contributing [and to] think complacently of the bargain-counter curriculum currently spread before the freshmen's fastidious eyes. [But it is wrong to conclude] that education took place apart from and even in spite of the college.. , . The student of the 18405 . . . was going to college with an earnestness that his successors might well envy. He was not dabbling...
...leftist (he was wounded in the Spanish Civil War), he nonetheless includes all leftist creeds among "the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls." A vigorous anti-imperialist (as a youth, he served in the Burma police), he has the courage to affirm that an imperialist like Rudyard Kipling is likely to speak more sanely about imperial affairs than are his liberal critics. Finally, while remaining a skeptical iconoclast, Orwell can insist that "high sentiments always win in the end, leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those...
...Political feelings have reached such a pitch of bitterness that the resignation of Mikolajczyk now might easily plunge Poland into a civil war far bloodier than the current fighting with underground Fascists. Knowing this, Mikolajczyk is determined to stay...