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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Cowley calls his book "a narrative of ideas." His composite hero is a youth of middle-class background and literary ambitions who graduated from college between 1916 and 1922. School and college began the long process of deracination. ''Looking backwards, I feel that our whole training was involuntarily directed toward destroying whatever roots we had in the soil, toward eradicating our local and regional peculiarities, toward making us homeless citizens. . . . We came to feel that wisdom was an attribute of Greece and art of the Renaissance, that glamour belonged only to Paris or Vienna and that glory...
...Freshman Jubilee last night held no charms for George Ford '37, star athlete of the Freshman Class. Ford, while in the process of decorating the Union for the festive occasion toppled from an 18-foot ladder and came down with a crash on the cement floor. As he struck the floor, the ladder, not to be outdone, came down...
Burke was in the process of examining the next to the last witness for the prosecution when his actions and questions so incensed Judge Sullivan that the magistrate ordered him to be removed from the courtroom and denied him the permission of continuing as an attorney for the defense. The removal of Burke from the defense left the case in a disorganized condition and Leon Lapin, one of the defendants was put in to handle the side of the defense...
...jungle adventures of animal-catching vary from the grim struggle of a black leopard with a fifteen-foot python to the more humorous clowning of waggish gibbons that were caught early in the picture to stage wrestling bouts for the duration of the film. The high spots in the process of rounding up the "wild cargo" are probably the captures of an albino water buffalo and a real man-eating tiger, who, if we may take Mr. Buck's word for it, had been playing havoc with the natives of Jahore until the up-to-date animal-catcher from America...
...seventeenth century was a colonel in the armies of Ferdinand III of Germany. Since his time, however, the family generally has preferred to remain out of uniform, on the theory that in uniform there is no higher title or power than that of general; whereas by the process of foregoing the title, the power may be vastly increased. The members of this family have always been uniquely international. When their vast Lorraine estates lay upon soil politically German they attached to their name the prefix von and turned their eyes toward Berlin: when the political frontier shifted under their rich...