Word: rut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...correspondents present failed unanimously to sense the approach of a great moment, ignored the super-news interest of a speech by the Dictator not in wild, bombastic vein, but warmly and humanly ruminative over the whole fertile land of his endeavors. The correspondents, plowing their usual rut, cabled in distorted and sensationalized form only what II Duce called the "goad" of his speech. Still worse, the correspondents twisted this until it meant almost the opposite of what Premier Mussolini went...
...stage. The characters are introduced, the minor ones involve themselves in minor episodes, but nothing much ever happens to the hero. One love-affair fizzles out, another is aborted, but these are merely by the way. When at last the formidable grandfather dies, Bernard has been in the rut too long and has forgotten his dreams. The cloth-mills are the inevitable, the Fates, to Bernard Quesnay. Their prosperity, strikes, slumps, trade-wars, absorb the hero until at last he is absorbed by the mills...
Utterly out of the rut of "travel books"are two volumes, respectively about the Far East* and the Far North.** Aldous Huxley, a goggled-eyed aesthetic master at turning trifles into significant facts, sets forth the searing paradoxes which he constructed on a trip around the world featuring the Orient but including (and devastating) the U. S. The Scandinavian wanderers have caught uniquely well the healthy rural glow, the astounding civic progress and the insufferably"countrified" social life of Scandinavian...
...when some?* like your Mrs. Helen Hoffman (TIME, April 12, LETTERS) accuses us married workers of lack of respectability, I'd like to commit mayhem on her. Poor, coddled hausfrau! Perhaps a man stupid enough to marry such a nixnox has been superseded over his rut by an alert married woman worker. Yet his "missus" need not squall...
...During the last few years at Harvard," he said, "baseball has fallen into about the worst rut that it has ever known at the University. This is undoubtedly due to a great many causes but the most important one, I believe, is the lack of interest which is shown by the undergraduates. Less enthusiasm and spirit of competition is being shown on the baseball diamond than in any other major sport...