Word: veneered
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...regional peculiarities, toward making us homeless citizens. . . . We came to feel that wisdom was an attribute of Greece and art of the Renaissance, that glamour belonged only to Paris or Vienna and that glory was confined to the dim past. . . . Essentially we were taught to regard culture as a veneer, a badge of class distinction...
...Author. Small, shy and blond, Robert Cantwell at 26 inspires more respect than is usual for one so young. Born in Little Falls, Wash., he had one year at the University Of Washington, then went to work in a veneer plant. In the course of his labors all over the U. S. he met and married a girl from Baton Rouge, went to Manhattan, published a novel (Laugh & Lie Down) which impressed critics. He has had seasoned, well-written book reviews in The New Outlook, The New Republic, the New York World-Telegram. Now in Boston, he is working with...
Smug Cambridge barbarians repairing to the Germanic Museum to obtain a little more polish for their cultural veneer, gape dumbly at the exhibit there now on display. So foreign to them is a spirit better constituted to create than to jape, to judge, not jape, to direct, not to drift, to lead, not to lag, that they apprehend only their own failure to understand the inspiring evidence of the German spirit placed before them...
...Road to Ruin," is a revolting commentary on the rule of King Dollar. The advertising of such films is calculated to make the adolescent-minded public believe that fornication and other assorted lecheries are shown in all their nakedness on the screen, gotten past the censors by a thin veneer of hypocritical "educational" advice to young girls and harassed mothers. The public, needless to say, is always disappointed, and might better get its vicarious sexual satisfaction from a Mae West opus; but the suckers continue to pack the theatres, and the producers continue to reap a golden harvest...
...pardon--the remainder has been incompetent and drab. Sunny Jim has been a confused and bewildered man since he entered office, and on this occasion he quite lost his head and reverted to his natural impulses as an American, in the process espousing the thinness of his cultural veneer...