Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Modern Turkey last week lost her foremost social and political architect. In Istanbul's white-domed alabaster Dolma-baghche Palace, in other days the home of sultans and califs, President Kamal Atatürk, long ill, died of cirrhosis of the liver. Beside his death bed wept his sister and two of his most intimate friends: Ali Fethi Okyar, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's who had stood faithfully by the Grey Wolf's side when Atatürk was waging a desperate uphill battle to save Turkey from dismemberment after the World War; and Sabiha...
...great leaps from continent to continent, and terms at Harvard sandwiched between visits to New Zealand for skiing, to Rapallo, Italy to see Ezra Pound. Recovering after breaking his legs skiing down Mt. Washington, he got a job as literary editor of New Democracy, a short-lived weekly preaching Social Credit. When New Democracy folded, he decided to keep on publishing his own department as a literary annual...
...This social mess has a particularly un fortunate effect on love: it results in what Spenlove-McFee calls another Gresham's law,* in which good love, i. e., based on mutual class interests, hasn't got a chance. Through Spenlove, a lower middle-class student in "the natural history of the well-to-do," Author McFee has a direct mouthpiece for his ironic reflections on the state of the U. S. rich (whose uneasiness, one gathers, serves them right...
Derelicts is only superficially a sea story, only superficially a novel. It is really a slow-motion stalking horse for McFee's very positive views on the relationship of social classes, particularly...
Master of ceremonies for the occas- ion will be John J. Mahoney '03, Director of Extension Courses, Member of the Faculty, and president of the organization which was incorporated June 6 as a "non-profit, non-partisan, non-sectarian institution devoted to educational work in the economic, political and social fields...