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Word: somberly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...journalists but dour, desperately sincere private observers, they presume that much may be intimately perceived, among its inhabitants, that tell the whole fate and meaning of a nation. The Lohrkes' regretful opinion: that England is at once dying, dead and badly in need of burial. They offer some somber and eloquent notes: on the deep feudal loyalty of the rural Englishman like that of a dog to his master; on the fungoid passivity of the English poor; on the drowning weight of the past, the atrophy of the sense of the future; on the "dead-end look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The British (Cont'd) | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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