Word: interlocking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...says Eliot, is the grand total of the word culture smashed into bits and pieces of semitruths. To reassemble it and grasp its full significance, he insists, the western world must first realize that all aspects of culture are not only related to each other but must overlap and interlock in such a way that they form a living whole...
...Aside from this immediate aim, British thinking is mainly concerned with: 1) Britain's trade and employment after the war; 2) the Empire's future; 3) relations with the U.S. and the Soviet Union; 4) the economic and political re-organization of Europe. All of these problems interlock; most Britons would rate the first as the most important and it is certainly the closest to home. They know well that the most pressing social force acting on Britain is the need for full employment...
...have never heard a radio, read a newspaper, or seen a movie, the plans of the plain people remain what they were: to own land or to own a business. The Chinese officials are working on a master plan of reconstruction in which individual careers will interlock with a nourishing, trading, building, postwar career for the nation. They are talking of the roads that must be built, of the 100,000 miles of railroads New China will need. They know what they want after the war. To go home. Back to the coastal cities, back to good coastal meat...
...problems of wartime news-handling belong to two classes: 1) getting accurate and important information; 2) being able to print it, i.e., dealing with censorship. In practice the two often interlock, for the officials to whom newsmen must go for information or for its verification often act as censors...
...such a life as Clorinda's, of such a community as Dixie Mission, would perforce be a great novel. But adequacy, on that scale, is no small word. Maurine Whipple gets a great deal onto paper, both of the weight and progression of a life and of the interlock-ings of a community, but it is only in her last 30 pages that she approaches adequacy: a strong groundswell almost to the edge of "grandeur. As for the rest, it is at best an infinitude of competent but never quite excellent stitching...