Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London. The scene of Lilith's present depredations is a place called Battle Hill, a rise of ground with a "strategic situation in regard to London." Through history, Battle Hill has witnessed massacres without number-"mornings and evenings of hardly human sport." Now, "from other periods of its time other creatures could crawl out of death, and invisibly contemplate [the living], awaiting the hour when they should either retire to their own mists or more fully invade the place of the living...
Joan McCollum '52 will serve as chairman of a brand new group--the Student Employment Committee which was set up this month as a direct result of Radcliffe's rise in tuition...
...standards of social justice and decency, the rise in working-class incomes may be approved-certainly the majority of Britons approve it. But approval does not answer the question: Where is the money coming from to replace capital equipment as it wears out? Less & less of it will come from investment by the gradually impoverished middle class, and this will certainly not be balanced by more & more capital investment from the rising working class. The new income of the working class will not go into capital goods; it will go into more milk, more education, more dentures...
WATCH THE NORTH WIND RISE (290 pp.) -Robert Graves-Creative...
Watch the North Wind Rise is no great shakes either as a novel or a sociological essay. But it manages to stand up-and to stand out-as another rich expression of Robert Graves's fantastical mind. To laugh in the face of his Goddess is only natural; but without this pure yet beastly muse Graves would probably not be what he emphatically is-one of the finest poets of the Late Christian Epoch...