Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Commonwealth & Southern Corp. . . . Gravely Mr. Willkie listened. Halleck had left out some of the story. His grandparents, nonconformists, had fled from Germany a hundred years ago, political exiles. Their name: Willcke. Wendell ("Win") Willkie had not been a model boy. He had tipped over neighbors' privies, painted his class numerals on the ceiling in high school, spent a night in jail after a football riot. In college he had been known as a radical, a disciple of Teddy Roosevelt, of Fighting Bob La Follette. His classmates had chosen him senior orator. . . . Halleck's voice came over the radio...
...There will be a ruling caste," Hitler had explained to Hermann Rauschning, "a historical class tempered by battle and welded from the most varied elements. There will be the great hierarchy of the Party. . . . And there will be the great mass of the anonymous, the serving collective, the eternally disfranchised, no matter whether they were members of the old bourgeoisie, the big land-owning class, the working class, or the artisans. . . . Beneath them there will still be the class of the subject alien races; we need not hesitate to call them the modern slave class...
...released for seven years of "practical life study," during which they serve in the labor and military services and learn a trade or profession, continuing at the same time their practical political work within the numerous Party organizations. At the end of this period, one fourth of each class is picked for further training at the Ordensburgen located at Crössensee in Pomerania, Burg Vogelsang in the Rhineland, Sonthofen in Bavaria. Specializing in ideology and the theory of leadership, they spend one year at each castle. Then the final selection is made and those found to possess supreme qualities...
...broadcast of Alexander Woollcott, he arranged his sportscasts in a pattern as intricate as that of the Town Crier, substituted whipcord for Woollcott's lace. His first sponsor was the proprietor of a chain of chili joints, whose clientele listened with stunned admiration to his high-class composition. From his chili sponsor Baiter got $10 a broadcast, zoomed into the big money within a year...
...doctor, but As I Remember Him is not another doctor book. Zinsser is interested in R. S. as "a noticeably average representative of that educated middle class . . . nostalgically conservative, yet trying hard to fall in with the spirit of the times. . . ." By writing his life and, still more, his opinions, he hoped to give an image of a class, a generation and an age, "more or less as Henry Adams wrote about himself." The result is an ingratiating hodgepodge of reminiscence, ironic sentiment, anecdote, medical history, opinionation, earnest philosophy. As such the book is an excellent portrait of an aging...