Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps it is possible to divide the objectors to any rearmament program into three classes; the first contains those who would rather see themselves, their families, and their countries martyred for their convictions; the second includes those who believe that armament is only necessary at the last moment, as a last resort, and hence is dangerous in times of peace; the third is a class which declares that the next war will be so horrible that there is no use preparing for it--civilization will be destroyed anyway...
...first, small in number, stand on firm religious ground. The second pointed to the "armed camp" cause of the Great War, and now the Munich Pact is being pointed out to them. But the third class is the one mind which can most easily be administered to by a dose of rationalization. This group reads that a single new poison gas bomb can wipe out hundreds of thousands of people and whole cities. A kind of popular propaganda has led this group to believe that the Satan vs. God war in Milton's "Paradise Lost" will be considered just...
...LIFE CLASS - Ludwig Bemelmans - Viking...
...Racine. He was also the only art critic of his day who recognized the greatness of Daumier. He died, broken by drink and opium, in 1867. Though not precisely a Bible to modern man, the Flowers of Evil has been abundantly profaned by illustrators who interpreted it as high-class pornography...
Roosevelt, a grandson of Theodore Roosevelt '80, comes from Cold Spring Harbor, New York, and graduated from Groson. Entering Harvard in the Class of '40, he has majored in the Classics and expects to finish his college course this year, since Rhodes scholars are supposed to have graduated. He is a resident of Eliot House and a member of the Signet Society...