Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...others, back to their normal indulgence towards a dowdy little bitch, cast a dream-like veil over the whole episode. Not until May, when her kennel rolled with black puppy-shapes, was she sure that she had really heard the Dark Gentleman's lyric blandishments. Author Stern, social chronicler, (The Matriarch, A Deputy Was King, Thunderstorm), now deserves a niche no whit below Christopher Morley's (Where the Blue Begins), from dog-lovers. If he could read it, Toes would ejaculate: "Great Spratt! I say, you chaps, that is a book! My copy is all dog-eared...
...manners to dislike soap and water, to have lice or warts, to horselaugh right in somebody's face, to have sooty feet. Never was a book more bubbling with conversation. Joy and sorrow, large matters and small are discussed with that vast volubility of people whose social life is instinctive, unintellectual. On and on the voices flow, never tiresome, liquid, direct, humorous, full of "yunnuh" (you), "enty" (isn't that so?), 'sho'," "Jedus." A three-dimensional talking cinema could reproduce folk-life no more fully nor could any director efface himself as completely as Mrs. Peterkin...
...terms, and interpreting the purposes and methods of the various types of poetry and prose. This course is exceptionally advantageous for those who are intending to concentrate in English. It shows, so to speak, "what it is all about". Finally, English 78 introduces to the main facts in the social, political, and intellectual history of the various periods of English literature. It helps one to realize that literature grows out of and expresses the life of its day, and that it can hardly be understood without some knowledge of that. Literature is not an orchid...
...interesting, but also because its students learn by long-continued practice to visualize reality. They are bound to forget details in the earths structures and processes. They cannot lose the power gained in study. That same power remains, tending to give sounder judgment in political struggle, business venture, or social activity...
...Multiplicity of "Personality in Relation to Industrial Situations," Mr. E. D. Smith, Emerson A, Social Ethics...