Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communism is our most powerful enemy. It is the strongest modern expression of a social idea-we must fight it but treat it with respect. We must study it well, deeply, and in all details so as to combat it, not with arms and force which are means of ephemeral victory, but by showing the masses-to whom we promise happiness in heaven while Marx promises happiness in mortal life-that long before Marx, St. Paul taught social justice, and that we can and must now put our theories into practice...
...first half of the novel, Mother Danforth's mind wanders wayward through the past, remembering all that a reader must know to understand what is to come, but also remembering such things as a day when she was a little girl, lying in the grass: "The heat waved over tier hands and face and the air rippled all around her in little rings and circulations of summer tunes. She put out a finger to deflect an emerald beetle climbing a blade of grass and watched it spread its pretty double wings and fly away; there was a long procession...
What Graves seems to be saying is that the Goddess is malevolent, too, and that her worshipers must recognize this or degenerate into stagnant smugness...
...management must have cleared an easy 50 grand, but you'd never know it from looking at the purses they put up. Take my race. The winner got $850. I've done better time but you think I'm going to break my neck for a lousy 850 bucks...
...point of view of the majority of the people who are renters and who, like all normal humans, want something for nothing. However I am tired of seeing the landlord used as a scapegoat. What justice is there in holding his rents down to pre-inflation levels when he must pay every laborer twice as much for the ever-needed repairs on his property? And what about coal costs--while the administration mollycoddles the miners? Isn't building material higher? Oh, yes, all landlords were given a chance to receive a 15 percent increase by tendering their tenants a lease...