Word: onset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Druge, like many another Westerner, believes that there exists a vast conspiracy in the East to keep the West Coast an undernourished industrial stepchild. The onset of World War II gave the West basic industries on a scale that it never had before, notably steel and aluminum. Then Westerners began to dream that the West was finally going to grow up industrially. But as the end of the war draws near with no definite plans announced to utilize fully those industries, many a Westerner has grown bitter and disillusioned. Last week Druge summed up that disillusionment and, in so doing...
...Nazi bombs, the walls were falling on all sides of the 221 Anglican prelates, priests and laymen who under the sponsorship of Dr. Temple, then Archbishop of York, huddled in greatcoats in the unheated rooms of Malvern College. It was not only British walls that were crashing. Under the onset of the Nazi conquests the walls of the whole known world were tottering. They had been thick with scribbled warnings. The Nazis were the terrible evidence that though men cannot live by bread alone, permanent hunger (for bread, for work, for hope) starves the human spirit into permanent inhumanity...
...Abbey of Monte Cassino was bombed last week, it was not only the destruction of the 1,400-year-old religious and cultural monument that stirred the world. It was the thought that the Abbey of Monte Cassino, a unique beacon of the spirit lit at the very onset of the Dark Ages, was being demolished by the military necessities of a civilization closer to the brink than any other has been since that earlier human crisis...
Most of Darrow's cartoons stick to urban life and the middle class - which he treats with a ridicule heavily touched with fondness. Darrow's favorite subjects include the laughable aspects of human underwear, the drastic results of heavy, middle-aged drinking, and the leering onset of sex in very small Boy Scouts ("Would you like to come up and look at my merit badges?"). Sometimes Darrow strikes a fine fantastic strain of social criticism. There is, for example, his classic comment on the profit motive. An incredibly cushy plutocrat sits in deep torpor and upholstery and hands...
Minstrelsy gradually died with the onset of the vaudeville chains, then the movies, then the radio. "I doubt," said pensive Neil O'Brien last week, "whether people would pay much more than $1 to see a good minstrel show today...