Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Saint Exupery beside being a first class writer plays the violin well, draws well, plays chess well, is very gifted. Incidentally, I never heard him use his title, probably "no Count, he." I do not think he would consider himself as France's No. i airman, holds no record that I know of, probably "no France's No. i airman, he." However, he is possibly the best known French pilot outside air circles and this due. to his writings, he also is a helluva nice fellow...
Unnamed Captain. Another broadcaster from Berlin last week purported to be the U-boat commander who sank the carrier Courageous, for which feat he was said to have received, besides the Fuhrer's congratulations, the Iron Cross, first class, his crew the Iron Cross, second class. Excerpts from his account of that performance...
Amid the cheerful cacophony as the class of 1943 was born, an ominous rumble came from college presidents. Looking gravely upon their fresh-faced flocks, assembled in chapels and halls, the presidents welcomed them with words of doom. Instead of calling their students "heirs to the heritage of civilization," the presidents counseled youth to prepare to salvage what was left of civilization after World War II. Typical excerpts...
...Bullet Has Went." The poetical effusions of the late John V. A. Weaver, husband of Actress Peggy Wood, are first-class examples of lowbrowed magazine verse. As such they have the large yet limited historical interest of having been almost entirely written in the no-browed vernacular that H. L. Mencken, dean of U. S. critical horse-doctors, has long plugged as the right speech of real Americans...
...critical standards are, at best, superimposed rationalizations of instinctive judgements. Any attempt to erect a standard of morality in art is nothing more than a class-room stunt. It is the old story of individual taste which has and will remain unchanged. But there is one new standard of critical truth which must not be overlooked, no matter how greatly individual tastes may vary: art is beginning to have political and social implications; it is becoming closely intertwined with the earth upon which we walk and the lives which we lead. Consequently, since art is in the process of adopting...