Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Low-Class Fascist." By then the House was deep in invective over another sort of execution-the Government's "guillotine" to speed two of its key measures (nationalization of inland transport, and town-&-country planning). Churchill stormed that the Government motion to cut off committee discussion was "strangulation of parliamentary debate . . . legislation by Government decree." Stung by ironic cheers from the Labor side, he lashed at the "idea of the government of the people, by the officials, for the party bosses," cried that "the liberties and the free life of Britain are in great danger" from Socialism...
Your editorial entitled "Low Grade System" seemed to me an entirely wrong approach of the problem. It represented an attempt to patch up a system which badly requires complete overhauling. As an external prod to effort, grades offer a cheap substitute (and an ineffective one at that) for the only incentive worth having: the student's interest and eagerness to learn. The student whose prime motive for studying is the attainment of good grades is not worth the College's time, anyhow...
...class, always the backbone of reform movements, has deserted the city for the cleaner suburbs with attractive school systems and play space for its children. Left behind to vote in the metropolis is the Beacon Street Brahmin class, snowed under, as Lyons puts it, by the clannishness of the low income groups...
...point the finger of blame at the low taste of the public. Unjustly but firmly, it has been aimed there by publishers and songwriters, who have set up certain criteria as to "what will sell." According to them, only the most simple tunes and elemental hackneyed lyrics will sell, so a public that has lots of nickels and likes to listen to the radio and go out dancing gets nothing better and settles for what it gets. When something original and interesting comes along, such as "It Might As Well Be Spring," it usually outsells all the others...
...Bates, who served with the R.A.F. in World War II, has written scores of short stories and several other novels (Spella Ho, Fair Stood the Wind for France). His latest is short and exciting enough to be read between supper and bedtime; its nonstop narrative includes the low-level gunning of the Breadwinner by an enemy plane, the damaged ship's run home under sail through a rising storm, the deaths of the rescued pilots. Along with all this, Author Bates raises the moral question that was common in the years following World War I: What friendship does...