Word: rottener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poet T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot attacked the Church in wasteland accents for letting Christian principle vanish from education. Sir Richard Acland was fiercer: "For over 150 years you have neglected your duty . . . because of sheer funk. . The whole structure of society ... is, from the Christian point of view, rotten and must permanently frustrate your efforts to create for the individual the possibility of a Christian life. . . . This has given Hitler the opportunity for saying 'To hell with the whole order.' He said this, and from despairing humanity he wrung forth a tremendous and dynamic response. ... In order...
...ridiculed because his riding habit is new and clean "like something right out of a store window." Contempt for his kind is expressed by Haven's: "A splendid chap, very high morals, very broad shoulders." And when the parvenu bridegroom leaves them all, sputtering: "You and your whole rotten class! You're on your way out-the lot of you-and good riddance," he is a howl...
...sang blindly for a rotten-toothed, dragglemaned lion that wants to smother the world with the weight of its years, to save itself from the cubs it has raised in the mines of the North and the mills of Manchester. But your duty is here, to lay the old Bald-Head quietly to rest, to deck its young with bright feathers and make strong their wings for flight. Mare Jaffe...
...such dualizings Duke University's Newman Ivey White has long and flatly said no. To Professor White, Shelley was a child of his century, whose cradle was rocked by "the French Revolution [which] was blowing like an irresistible gale against the rotten political and social structure which the eighteenth century had considered stable and enduring." One of the two or three minds who vitally affected 19th-Century thought, Shelley was perhaps the most radical voice in poetry since Lucretius, an inexorable social revolutionist. A rhyming Marx, he urged the British masses...
...were huddled over the piano polishing up the newest song in the show: "There's Something Rotten in Groton." This epic ditty is delivered by Maxie Baer and Sid Silvers, who gain admission to college using forged diplomas from Dr. Peadbody's institution...