Word: socializes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With so many new charges on its hands, the Government, through its Indian Bureau (established in 1824) had to 'set about a program of social work-building schools, hospitals, etc. The discovery of oil on Indian-owned properties kept Federal agencies busy...
...modernists of the various Christian denominations, that a great and growing strata of Christians now believe literally in the imminent fulfillment of Biblical prophecies. Such belief is the "medicine" of religious charlatans, the persuader of profit-taking evangelists, and the consoler of the regular clergy. Where there is social misery, the religious are apt to keep patient, in hopes of the prophetic millenium. (The non-religious are apt to be impatient, in hopes of what they think the economic millenium - socialism, communism...
...quickly. To cover the assignment with the thoroughness and mimetic accuracy (but not the rancor) of a Sinclair Lewis, and at the same time to create four central characters of breathless reality, and a Dickensian hurly-burly of minor characters, and to keep them moving through their swift social traffic under their own power and in their right positions, requires a highly developed social instinct and something akin to literary genius. Socially and book-technically, Little Sins is a stunning performance. And to its fundamental perfections are superadded real whimsy, real pathos, an unobtrusive cleverness at small talk...
...problem confronted Anglo-Jewry today. He answered: "Inter-marriage. This is a serious problem in English Jewry. The Jew here, perhaps more than any other country in the world, is accepted on his own merits. This is especially true among the better classes, where, unlike America, there is no social prejudice, and no social barriers of any sort as between Jews and non-Jews. "The solution lies in the strengthening of Jewish consciousness and of Jewish convictions. When you consider for how many years the wealthier Jews in this country have been living together with non-Jews on more intimate...
With Mr. Sempack looming near, Philip turns socialist, improves his diction and spelling, begins writing adult ("real") letters to Cynthia, reporting the strike and his own evolution from an amiable parasite into a social thinker. Cynthia writes back and in addition keeps a 'journal. The reader is denied, or spared, very little that they think or feel, with the result that the World State, though it must be nearer with potent young Philip on its side, remains vague in outline and seems to belong only to the Rylands', Mr. Sempack and Author Wells...