Word: noted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld. Only letters under 400 words can be printed because of space limitations...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld. Only letters under 400 words can be printed because of space limitations...
...dominant note of the book is contained in the curious and eye-catching title. It is the story of the awakening of the peasant from his long sleep of ignorance and superstition and the clumsiness with which they have tried to grasp hold of their new and streamlined life. Mr. Duranty often has an amused smile on his lips when he tells of the strange effects which the attempts to adapt themselves to their boss comrades' ideas of civilization have on these simple people, but he is gentle with them throughout and never sharply satirical...
...tempo is set in the first story, "The Brave Soldier and the Wicked Sorcerer" when the note of modern precision's victory over the ignorance and superstition of the past is struck. The young Red soldier returns gloriously to his village to marry his girl in spite of the extorting opposition of the sorcerer and hostility of the priest. He beats the sorcerer for his prediction of a baby with a hairy body and a long black tall, and justice is vigorously upheld when the latter's suit for damages is dismissed by the Soviet court because of his attempt...
...that such crude amusement can be either to the King's or the Queen's taste. Fortnight ago millions of provincial radio listeners to the first vaudeville Command Performance before Their Majesties agreed that the B. B. C.'s female commentator had struck exactly the right note in saying of Queen Elizabeth: "She is smiling sweetly, as though she really enjoys...