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...years in politics in rebellion and dissent. In Depression years he attacked old-fashioned Tory economics, urging a society that would be "neither jungle nor beehive." He once attacked the whole government bench as "a row of disused slag heaps," and said the party was "dominated by second-class brewers and company promoters." He protested Baldwin's appeasement of Italy in the Ethiopian war by "renouncing the whip," choosing the role of parliamentary independent almost two years before Eden's better-remembered withdrawal from the Chamberlain cabinet...
...backstage fight at the plucky little New York City Opera burst into full view last week. A policy schism has long troubled the 12-year-old company. Was it to be a "little Met" and give second-class performances of the big company's repertory, or was it to seek out scores that the Metropolitan Opera would not produce and do them well? Manhattan Maecenas Lincoln Kirstein held the second view and, as managing director of the entire New York City Center (opera, ballet, theater), tried to make it work. Through a $200,000 Rockefeller grant, he helped commission...
...Germans have no part in the defense of the West," he said, "there is a risk of extremists once again gaining influence." He thought that these extremists might point to America's snubbing of their nation as a second-class power, and perhaps bring about a new German nationalism
...that the Cabinet came close to suppressing the paper. After Dunkirk Cassandra bellowed for an all-out attack on Germany, even though Britain could barely defend itself at the time. He complained that the British army was weak because it was ruled by the "military aristocracy of the Guards, second-class snobocracy in the center, and behind it all the cloying inertia of the civil service." In the House of Lords, the Lord Chancellor pointed out that the legendary Cassandra had come to "a sticky end." To avoid such an end (i.e., suppression), Connor enlisted as a private...
...little used. But as exams draw nearer and nearer, seats in House libraries grow fewer and fewer, and, in addition, many students seem to prefer the cool, quiet comfort of Lamont. Library officials have stated that "we would rather have a first-class library with limited hours than a second-class library with longer hours." Their concern is thus evident, as it was when they showed their willingness to cooperate with students in such past matters as Friday checkout times...