Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been thinking so far chiefly of a contrast between two sets of economists. But the New Deal owes neither its conception or launching primarily to economists. What of the fallacious notions held by the less educated--from an economics point of view--of the Roosevelt camp? Here everything depends on general predisposition and nothing on specific economic arguments. I myself feel that we should thank God both for the damn fools and their fallacious notions. The essential thing is to make the start in a radically new direction and that is something--even though from the point of view...
...calls forth neither surprise nor complaint. Side by side with such brilliant prose as that in which De Quincey illumined the mysteries of laudanum, we find the halting periods of Kavanaugh, whose bravery saved the British garrison at Lucknow. The biblical account of the exodus from Egypt offers strange contrast, both in time and in method of approach, to the war diary of a flighty young aviator. In lesser vein are the colorful tales of spies, condemnations, countermands in the nick of time, secret sleigh journeys on the Baltic ice, wolves, and various other escapes from famine, sword and fire...
...this direction appear to be in the offing. To understand what the Conservatives might do it is necessary to look back a little. For some years past there has been within the Conservative Party a loyal opposition headed by Major Walter Elliot, who favors a positive, aggressive, policy in contrast to Stanley Baldwin's sit-tight-and-all-will-be-well program. This minorlty is now beginning to get the ear of the rank and file of the party because of a widespread public reaction against the present National Government's do-nothing policy...
...major nations will be disembarrassed of the nagging idealism of the smaller club members, free once more to pursue their devious ways without fear of interruption or inconvenient cross-examination. Il Duce will be rid of a contradiction which has weighed sorely upon him from the first: the contrast of his abhorrence of parliamentarism at home, and his acceptance abroad of the super-parliament of the League. France will be shorn, it appears, of the universal sanction of the Versailles Treaty which the League was to ensure; but with her present military strength and with the political situation...