Word: urbans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face of the doubtless urban designer of the new Communist symbol should be as red as the revolution's flag. His five-tined fork is inescapably a manure fork; a hay fork has only three tines...
...artists, they held machines in fear and reason in contempt. They lost faith in progress, protested against life itself. The toughest of them remained within their urban prison, cultivating the stoic pose of the dandy, who scrutinized putrescence through a monocle. "To the real artist it was almost necessary to be blasphemous or mad." Indeed, "the 19th Century left the defense of primary values to madmen." Much of Allott's thesis is summed up in that arresting sentence. And pointing to such diverse phenomena as Tarzan and T. S. Eliot, he argues that 19th-Century romanticism persists to this...
...England family was already in possession of many elements of weakness and instability by 1700." Symptoms: desire to have small families, interest in urban commerce rather than farming...
...criticisms will do much to reassure U.S. readers not dedicated to perpetuating social chaos that Ernest Bevin, Herbert Morrison, et al. are responsible leaders. Irony No. 2: From Author Strauss's book emerges an unusually crisp self-portrait of the radical intellectual mind-its arid cleverness, doctrinaire arrogance, urban provincialism, intolerant insistence on substituting ideas for life...
...forward again--in a regimented world where you had to stick in one rut till you died in it? Could anyone live the full life today? Vag sported, then blew his nose. He turned back to a course reading list in sociology: Mumford: the "Culture of Cities"--something about urban see, and architecture--must cover a pretty broad field--heard of him somewhere else-wrote that American lit book--and how about that one on science, "Technics and Civilization." Vag sat up straight. Here was the man be said couldn't exist today. And he'd written another book...