Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shipbuilder for the United Nations the U.S. Maritime Commission spent $15 billion in four years. From the shipyards came bottoms aplenty and in time In their wake last week came a flood of charges-reports about how the job was done...
...already known and hated as Fascism: free thought was abolished, the individual became subordinated to the state, the human bill of rights was suppressed and the secret police became the main arm of government. Soon little boys, well-shod and sporting Balilla-like uniforms, were marching in the wake of Salazar's blackshirt-type Legido (Legion), which gave the stiff-arm salute and chanted: "Who leads? SALAZAR...
...till thousands of dollars in such shenanigans had been made all along the border did sleepy Washington wake up last week and stop the funny business. But Washington could not so easily stop the funny business going on with the U.S. dollar all over the world...
Novelist Howe's satire is not the final criticism of higher learning in the U.S., but it has its sting. Harvardmen will recognize the traits and the chatter. The Master of "Bromfield House," who enters on a card each new pun he divines in Finnegans Wake; the English department poet whose looks at least were once Keatsian; the Fogg Art Museum curator and his inseparable friends, young men of debonair malice; the publicity-seeking psychologist from the Midwest and his wife, resolutely unrepressed; and Dorothea's husband, John Calcott, a gentleman. Calcott, always well under control, stuns Dorothea...
Through these ten years the little magazine transition, published in Paris by Eugene Jolas, printed the "Work in Progress" (later published as Finnegans Wake) of that great master James Joyce. With Joyce's gigantic experiment in evidence, transition's purpose "to revolutionize language" seemed a possible one; dadaists and automatic writers took renewed courage; and young poets dipped more consciously into the unconscious, in which Uncle Alfred swam like a kidney...