Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brother goes to Yale, and he was very distressed and upset when I said I was going to Radcliffe (he wanted me to go to Smith or Vassar) you see, well, it's because going to Yale, you know, he doesn't think much of Harvard. You know, I mean you can understand that...
...Charles R. McWherier 3L, president of the HYRC, said he interpreted the remark to mean the HYD and the John Reed Society. "The Wallacites not Communist," McWhorter said...
...punishment does not fit the crime," Dean Bender told the Council. Since attendance will not be taken the upperclass courses this year, he added, probation would not mean much...
...this mean that a serious recession was in sight? No, said Slichter. He doubted that many prices would ever drop far toward prewar levels. Any drop in business spending, he thought, would be quickly made up by a rise in buying by consumers and by state and local governments which still have "great [unfilled] needs." Never had there been a boom of comparable magnitude "accompanied by less optimism and less speculative buying." Even after three years of it, the country as a whole is still in a "remarkably sound position," although eventually there will probably be a price adjustment. Slichter...
...ruins of the war, Faulkner shows the mean-spirited and hard-driving Snopeses, poor whites who absorbed the cheap commercialism of the carpetbaggers, rising to economic and social power by defeating the Sartoris clan, impotent aristocrats talking about the code of chivalry but unable to bring it to life. Faulkner is especially adept at portraying the creatures of the decayed South: Gowan Stevens, a gentleman of the old school, who learned to drink in a Virginia college but not to overcome his cowardice; Flem Snopes, who would not hesitate to stamp on every living creature to satisfy his greed...