Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fairy tales are for children. And some of the most popular (e. g., W. H. Hudson's Green Mansions) are laid in a realistic setting no naturalist could carp at. Dr. Gion's scene is a modern town, presumably German; its characters do not pretend to be anything but flesh & blood, but its effect is definitely fairy-taleish. A quiet book, of oldfashioned, deferential sentiment and gentle resignation, it should appeal to readers who want a change from "real life...
Whether Communism is an inevitable world phenomenon I do not pretend to know. Another catastrophic upheaval like the world war and Communism may be the residuary legacy. But the complacent certitude with which the writer predicts the imminent triumph of communism in India may be questioned. Here one must guard against his subjective preferences masquerading as objective reality. The political evolution of many other countries has not invariably followed along lines indicated in communistic theories. What makes India particularly amenable to communism is assumed rather than proved in the article. Even accepting the desirability of communism in India and conceding...
English 12 is one of the best composition courses in college. It does not pretend to inspire great writers, nor is it able to make men writers at all. What it does do is to develop one's ability to write good prose and poetry. Professor Maynadier is a good sound critic who is not carried away by his own or anyone else's unfounded enthusiasms...
...Bethlehem's late lawyer once remarked, when he was drawing up its famous percentage contract with the government, that "The higher optimism is to hope for a little pessimism in Charley Schwab." So Mr. Schwab is once more sanguine. Perhaps he is feels that he might at least pretend has is having a feast when the shining Marxian angel draws her bloody finger across his wall...
...cannot pretend that I am not shocked at having any person put into a vault for 16 or 17 years. If Mr. Mooney was such a bad man, why didn't you have the courage and the character to shoot...