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...derisory revision of Marx's famous exhortation to the workers of the world, Orwell ends his book with an address to his ruined brothers of the British middling classes, crippled by debt and (in his view) shackled by snobbery. He invited them to descend with him into the nether regions of the "working class where we belong," for, says he, "we have nothing to lose but our aitches." The British middle classes, however, have stubbornly continued to cling to their social aspirations and their aspirates. Class war may be 'ell. but the better-bred Briton has decided...
...with the United States Army Graves Registration), can prove that Dujardin is. in fact, no martyr but a traitor. This should make Stone a hero in his own right, but, as Humes tells it, he is caught between the upper millstone of a postwar U.S. right wing and the nether millstone of French Stalinism...
...revolutions and complete detachment can usually expect not to outlive its own boisterous exclamations. Nevertheless, most of the things here are not high Dada. The studies of El Lissitzky, Max Ernst, Moholy Nagy, Malewich and Hannah Hoch more often reflect a kind of experimentalism which hovers tenuously in the nether regions of design, just outside the gates of one muse or another. Every so often, of course, a Mondrian or a Klee comes along who makes something of it. Then cometh the rear guard which inevitably ends up, again, indebted to the theories and left with little else...
...centerfield, Russ Prouty of the Bruins got his feet tangled up and fell on his face while trying to field the hit. And all three men came around to score while the ball bouncd merrily on into the nether reaches of the field...
...reminded one-because of his shaggy beard and manner of speech-of a latter-day prophet. He lived almost exclusively on peanut butter and wild mustard greens . . ." Some were writers of great books, incomprehensibly without publishers. Another merely "smelled of genius." Another was writing "a chthonian [i.e., from the nether world] drama mirroring the nightmare," etc. Even the man who might put in sewers would do so with a "somnambulistic clairvoyance." Finally there is the zealot nitwit who asks Miller: "What makes the waves go up and down? Can you answer that...