Word: counter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disappeared for weeks at a time on camping trips with gypsies. He once left a train at Marseille and traveled all the way back into Spain to paint a girl he had seen from the train window. The satyrlike old Bohemian, John Bidlake, in Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point was immediately accepted in Bloomsbury as a fictionalization of Augustus John, minus the real artist's wild whiskers and his trick of looking fierce in one eye and hunted in the other...
...writer, it is sometimes a handicap. He is most interesting when he writes about experiences where he got involved. He writes better, for example, about a girl hitchhiker he picked up than about John L. Lewis; better about Manhattan radical-intellectuals as personalities than about their role as intellectual counter-parts of the McNamara dynamiters; better about Slovenian peasants than about C. I. O. The letters written to him by a Hollywood friend are interesting for their violence rather than for the sociological value he attributes to them...
...student so desires. The second half, Sociology Ab, is a study of cultural and a survey of the main theories of cultural change. Sorokin, one of the foremost sociologists of the country, gives rather one-sided but interesting and sometimes startling views, and since the section men clarify and counter-balance them adequately, the lectures are well worth while. The course is highly recommended for non-concentrators...
...CRIMSON baseball club, fresh from its triumphant trample over the prostrate form of the Yale "News," swept through the ranks of its once-greatest rival like the whirlwind. 23 to 2, the traditional CRIMSON margin of victory for yea, these many years, was the counter when erstwhile Catcher Wentworth retired the last newsgetter in the gathering darkness...
...squelched. Commentator Carter was said to have complained volubly that the Administration had "got" Radiorating General Hugh Johnson for his carping, was now persecuting him. No Administration forced General Johnson from the air nine weeks ago, but cessation of the Grove Bromo Quinine broadcast, on which he appeared, did.* Counter-rumors reported that the President's secretariat, far from "persecuting" Commentator Carter, had used its influence to keep Carter's radio chain and sponsor from bearing down on him lest Carter become a martyr. Fact is, last week Commentator Carter perceptibly softened his tone toward the Administration...