Word: hinterlands
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...Stein is no such writer. Like a huge squat mountain on a distant border of the literary kingdom, obscured not only by the cloudy procession of more Aprilly authors but by the self-induced fog that hangs around her close-cropped top, she has loomed from afar over the hinterland of letters, a sphinxlike, monolithic mass. Twenty years she has squatted there; eyes accustomed to the landscape are beginning to recognize something portentous in her massive outline. By the time-honored process of getting older Gertrude Stein, though she remains as mysterious as ever, has made herself a background place...
...Congress, were joining with the Continental Convention on Technocracy. It looked as though another flight into the upper air of serious attention might be in store for the limp technocratic skyrocket which last winter burst in a dazzling festoon of headlines and sputtered out in the back pages of hinterland newspapers. Then Howard Scott the Technocrat let off a preliminary bombast: ''We want men of action and when I say men, I mean males and females. Our light is to abolish the price system. Bayonets will line up those who wilfully refuse to join the movement. The Roosevelt...
...hinterland editors seemed less excited than in Manhattan. In St. Louis. Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch, conceding that the Morgan tax deductions were "of a totally different sort" from those of Banker Mitchell, found "grave injustice" in the tax laws. To the Denver Post Morgan and Insull were of a stripe. William Allen White compared Morgan tactics to "a thimblerigging game." Of letting friends in on the ground floor of stock prices, said the Baltimore Sun, "Taking the practice as a whole, it is bad." The reticent Kansas City Star found nothing in the story to warrant deviation from...
...scarcely fit even for one another's depressing company. Gentler observers reflect that Oxford does not represent all of England. Its young men are mostly of the gentry. And British gentry are alien to youths from big U. S. cities, not to mention those of the U. S. hinterland whence most Rhodes Scholars come. Cecil Rhodes's will provided that Scholars be chosen two from a State, which has sometimes resulted in thinly populated States sending up indifferent candidates. In 1929 Parliament was persuaded to make a change. Candidates are now chosen from eight districts of six States...
...obstacles of College indifference and group lassitude, that failure will be inevitable. There are patent signs in Dean Hanford's report, and in dean Leighton's supplementary suggestion for a more personal contact between Freshman adviser and advisee, that first year men have been temporarily relegated to the hinterland. There is certainly much to be done in this field; but it is of prime importance that if Freshmen with unsatisfactory records are to be readmitted they must be given a fair chance for scholastic rehabilitation. Their inclusion in the House Plan would not only be a just recognition of their...