Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ring doorbells and get out the vote is his advice to the Democrats, 59 million votes, he says, is about what the vote goal should be if potentialities are seen in historical perspective. More voters means more voters from the lower income groups which means more votes for the Democratic Party. That logic seems to be an axiom in Democratic Party circles nowadays, although it has been statistically checked only in Santa Cruz County in California by a couple of Stanford professors...
Past the meat of the book come college customs--"Each year the junior class gives a luncheon for the senior class, in honor of their graduation from Radcliffe; at the luncheon, each engaged senior is given a ring of pink rosebuds," and college informatio--"By the first week of college, every new student should have met her 'senior sister', to whom she may go for information and advice during her first year...
...Napoleon, artistically the Göring of his day, sacked Italy to fill the Louvre. "We will have everything that is beautiful in Italy," he decided, "except a small number of objects at Turin and at Naples." He even forced Pope Pius VI to sign a treaty whereby the Louvre acquired (if only for a few short years) a hundred of the Vatican's greatest jewels...
...shoestring. Top editors will be British-born Cedric Belfrage, onetime cinema critic for the London Daily Express, and James Aronson, New York newsman. Among the contributors: Author Louis Adamic, Dr. Guy Emery Shipler, editor of the Churchman; Roger (American Past) Butterfield, Sportwriter John Lardner and his screenwriter brother Ring Jr. (one of Hollywood's "unfriendly ten"); Max Werner, Anna Louise Strong, untiring apologist for Russia, and ex-New Masses Cartoonist William Gropper...
...private citizen and a practicing poet." The results, so far as verse is concerned, are certainly minor, still echoing the big, pretentiously philosophical tones for which his poetic equipment is essentially unsuited, but here & there MacLeish is at home again with the private emotions that he can make ring true. Chief among such emotions is something that some synthetically tough "intellectuals" have decried as nostalgia, as if the muses were not forever daughters of memory, or as if there were something necessarily weak about missing other times, places, or people...