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...Mechanized farming, wilful waste and modern youth's snobbish contempt for the land are reducing the American countryman to the same degenerate level as the city dweller, i.e., a soulless, luxury-mad "parasite on the good earth" who wanders through life "with a kindly, moronic smile of self satisfaction...
...took them to be "the voice of the little people." Blushes & Raw Meat. Africa was full of surprises. The "natives," rigorously segregated in so-called "locations," were ''far more politically aware than my fellow Negroes in America." Eslanda "blushed with shame" when she recalled the Harlem-dweller's mental picture of his "African brothers ... in leopard skins, waving spears and eating raw meat...
...Walter's. "Poetic" names built around glen, dale, vale, hurst, mere and burn broke out like a rash in the late 1800s; soon they enclosed many cities "like a ring of outer fortifications," protecting them from such vulgarisms as creek, gap, bottom and bluff. "Even if a city-dweller could escape moving to the suburbs [of Larchmont, Glen Cove and Scarsdale] in his life, he was nevertheless very likely to end up finally in [a cemetery ] named Oakmont or Woodland." And where Sir Walter failed, estate agents of the boom 1920s often succeeded. The town of Mosquito became Troutdale...
...flat-dweller wrestled with his Morrison shelter-a flat, tablelike, metal affair, raised from the floor to admit mattress and sleeper, its sides wire-meshed against flying furniture, bricks-and glass. The bumped head (from mismeasured diving under the Morrison) was no longer worth even a casual remark...
Once life was simple for the hardy 'Cliffe-dweller who ventured forth to the yard. No smoking on the steps of Widener was the order of the Day, every day, and that was that. But now that the old order has completely yielding, sterner measures seem appropriate as the "combined instructee" strives to become a more suitable members of the ivy-girded college family...