Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instinctively want to preserve past ways, but they are losing. Now, in the village assemblies the youngsters speak out against their fathers-often violently. The old, rigid family structure is cracking. Where the young will go, what faith they will finally adopt, I don't know...
...Safer Way. The little man was the measure of America's task. The little man -and millions like him-wanted to know what he might bow to now. Emperor MacArthur? The American flag? If democracy was the faith of the men who had beaten Japan, it was probably a good thing; he would make obeisance...
...state bar (say, Virginia) who could leave the courtroom after a performance and settle on the veranda, recount the day to his family, telling what he had borrowed from Plato and what from Sir Walter Scott, and conclude: 'And every word I said to them I know in my heart to be true...
Then his inquisitors got tougher. His former fellow academician, K. V. Ostrovityanov, warned: "You must know from the history of our party what grave consequences result from stubborn insistence on one's own errors . . ." Finally, last week, like hundreds of other Soviet intellectuals, Varga decided, things being as they are, it was time to retract. Admitting that he had not "acted cleverly," he dutifully sent in his recantation, for the current issue of Questions of Economics. It sounded familiar-almost as though the Russians now had printed forms for these occasions. Wrote Varga: "I formed a whole chain...
Like those who know where to lay hands on Ambrose Bierce, Charley Ross or Judge Crater, there are people who turn up at irregular intervals with grandiose and intricate claims to large chunks of the U.S. Lawyers make money out of these things, and everybody else laughs. On the stage of Madrid's Teatro Martin one night recently, everybody laughed at "Lepe," Spain's favorite clown...