Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Snubs That Rankled. His boyhood chance for traveling with the home-town upper-upper crust was wiped out by a financial panic. "I can remember distinctly how I felt when we didn't have any more money [after the crash of 1907]. I could feel myself becoming what [Anthropologist W. L.] Warner calls 'mobilized downward.' Of course, I had read Horatio Alger and I was ready to face this change in circumstance in a sportsmanlike manner." In Point of No Return it is Anthropologist Malcolm Bryant who explains such niceties of the scientific vocabulary to Charley Gray...
...Vest & a Smile. With the white upper crust, however, Earl Baldwin fared less well. He affronted Whitehall by suggesting that the Colonial Office stop sending him suggestions and start sending money. He snooted officials of the U.S. military base on Antigua, and at one ball for blacks and whites condescended to dance only "with the blackest and ugliest" woman in the room. His favorite luncheon guest was a small pickaninny who wore nothing but a vest and a broad smile. Such eccentricities, the white colony complained, were a bad influence on the restless natives. Earl Baldwin was summarily ordered...
...says Koestler, must make a tremendous effort to put his two vital impulses together in such a way that they will restore him to balance. He must be self-assertive, i.e., he must give full rein to his "exploratory" nature, and by thinking for himself, break through the "horny crust" of habit and convention. If he performs this self-assertion courageously, he will escape from the vanities of the "Trivial Plane" into the self-transcending verities and "cosmic perspective" of the "Tragic Plane." On the other hand, nothing, in these bad days, can save him if he obstinately clings...
...afternoon at the home of the influential woman Communist known as Madame Potiphar-with a lean GPU agent appearing unexpectedly, and the hostess disappearing with "a hero of work" while her husband lectures to Cummings about the Cause-is a queer mixture of horror and humor in upper-crust Communist social life. The other episodes and scenes seem to have grown more impressive-the theater ("everywhere a mysterious sense of behaving, of housebrokenness,of watch-your-stepism"), the jail and the nightclubs, the Writers' Club and the literary receptions, the chronic indigestion, the perpetual enthusiasm, the American correspondents...
Slowly a green crust spread over the maligned statue, darkening and coarsening it until people could hardly believe it was Donatello's at all. At last, in 1908, it was taken down from its place in Florence's church of Santa Croce. When the retreating Nazis demolished the city's ancient bridges and damaged its Uffizi Gallery and Santa Croce, San Ludovico stood serene in an abandoned railroad tunnel, waiting for peace, and justice...