Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...return to intuition. . . . Literature has done more than anything else to alienate peoples. . . . Sensation-hungry foreign correspondents would do well to discover the metaphysical roots of National Socialism instead of dealing with sensations of the day. Only brainless spiritual dwarfs cannot realize that Germany is Europe's shock absorber against the invasion of the immeasurable East which would have destroyed European culture. Hereafter the cultural as well as the political development of the Third Reich will be dictated by the Party...
...became his position in the world, went through the University of Chicago and Harvard Law School, entered his father's law office?and promptly became disgusted with the world around him. To him the discovery that large corporations play politics and get favors from local politicians was a terrible shock. He wrote a book, The Shadow Men. (In 1934 it would have been Forgotten Men.) When Theodore Roosevelt campaigned in 1912, Richberg went into politics as a Bull Mooser. He went in again in 1924 as a supporter of La Follette, but he did not back a winning political combination...
...coming ? besides the fact that he was by all odds the funniest-looking man in the Administration ? was that by his personal popularity he softened the New Deal's animus towards bankers and vice versa. A second greater significance was that he acted as a shock absorber be tween the banking system and the Administration, pressing for sound finance, yielding to the extraordinary fiscal demands of a powerful President. One by one, Governor Black saw the important functions of the Reserve System taken away ? its control of the currency, its control of credit. Future financiers will know...
Three attackers in gasmasks resembling nothing so much as the Three Little Pigs (Shock Troops Advance Under...
...different as prose and poetry are the two prevailing types of detectification: 1) the shooting-&-chasing kind, with more action than plot, the denouement hidden by red herrings; 2) the novel which attempts to convey an impression of real people, leisurely, intelligent, even sophisticated, with a minimum of shock and horror. The thriller market has lately declined with a consequent rise in general interest in the more subtle type of this brand of fiction...