Word: greate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last great U.S. shortage which spring showed definite signs of coming...
...mounted on a tripod; with these he could make out the scent gland of the hind leg of a butterfly a quarter of a mile away. "I often wondered," he says, in a sentence of purest Beebe, "what the soaring vultures, looking down, made of this strange creature with great tubular eyes and five legs...
...Great Big Promiscuous You. Lewis' new book, based on a number of trips to the U.S. and a great deal of reading, may serve as a handy companion to Poet T.S. Eliot's recent Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (TIME, March 21). The two men agree in their diagnosis of contemporary cultural trends-and draw totally opposite conclusions. The religious decline deplored by Eliot does not ruffle Lewis, who believes that "Christianity, as a unifier, became a bad joke long ago." The loss of regional differences and "roots," lamented by Eliot, is a joy to Lewis...
...regards the U.S. as destined to be a "great big promiscuous grave into which tumble, and there disintegrate, all that was formerly race, class, or nationhood." Many Americans share with Eliot his fear of the standardizing power of technology and mass education; Lewis relishes the prospect of "one intellectual and emotional standard" which he hopes will soon make "the inhabitant of Mexico City . . . indistinguishable from the dweller in Montreal...
Love that Dirt. One thing wrong with Americans, in Lewis' view, is that most of them fail to realize what a magnificent future they are building. Tied to petty, European standards of measurement, Americans keep thinking that they are a great nation, instead of "an advance copy" of the "rootless Elysium" that is to come. They worry because their cities are "irresponsible, dirty, corrupt," when in Lewis' opinion such conditions are "like nature," and therefore highly admirable. Americans even suspect their gregarious habits and glad-handedness, when, as Lewis sees it, they should be reveling in their "beautiful...