Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...linked for defense in informal agreement but not by pact with Canada. It was a logical culmination of the policy expressed by the President at Kingston, Ontario, two years ago: "The people of the United States will not stand idly by if domination of Canadian soil is threatened by any other empire." It was an inclusion of Canada within the scope of the Monroe Doctrine, especially as the doctrine was broadened to include military agreements at the Havana Conference. The U. S. had set up a defense board with a country at war. Whether that fact meant that President Roosevelt...
...calla lilies around her Balcic house and that she insisted on having them tended by Bulgarian gardeners. In her will Queen Marie devised that though her body should rest in the royal crypt near Bucharest, her heart should be enshrined at Balcic, which she hoped would always be Rumanian soil...
...theory, used chiefly as a literary framework for the project, was German Philosopher Oswald Spengler's theory of cultural cycles: that cultures, like individuals, pass through youth and maturity to old age and death. Cultures are born in the countryside among "a homogeneous people, living close to the soil, intensely religious. . . . There is a springtime feeling in the air . . . a mo ment of equipoise, a widespread flowering of the imagination. . . ." This moment in New England's culture Van Wyck Brooks fixed superbly in The Flowering of New England...
Older cultures had their feeder roots deep in the soil. This meant more than the tactile love that can tell the soil's fertility and tilth from a little dirt crumbled be tween two fingers. It meant the abiding shadowy love of the soil because of the generations who have gone into it and populate it. For culture of this kind U. S. history was too short...
Critic Brooks's problem was to put in place of this traditional culture of the soil, mortuary and ancestral, the only thing that could take its place - the legend of an outburst of native thought, fertile, intense, creative, a mythology of minds. He found it in the flowering of New England...