Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...circular sent out to the class of '40 today the Senior Spread Committee announced that Eddie Duchin, his piano and his orchestra will play for the dancing in Lowell House on Monday night, June 17, from 10 o'clock until...
...Whereas the English war budget has been considered insufficient, whereas England still owes a large debt to this country, will not the people of the United States bear a financial burden imposed upon them by the British ruling class...
...English poor; on the drowning weight of the past, the atrophy of the sense of the future; on the "dead-end look" in the faces of the young; on the fagend of the industrial revolution, a people physically rated, even by their own experts, as a third-class nation; on moral apathy and deafness to change of the middle and upper classes; on the leaders of England ("The profoundest wish of English statesmen of our time was to elude the responsibility of statesmanship"). "Looking ahead, one saw the face of nightmare; looking back, one saw the faces of ghosts...
...Canada, are a virtual certainty once the war is over. The war, says Viton, will be a forcing-bed for rebellion in the Colonies: the industrialization of natives, the use of natives in new colonial posts, the return of native soldiers, the rise of a native, anti-imperialist middle class, all guarantee rebellion on an unprecedented scale...
Since then Editor Macdonald has blown a sharp if not widely audible pipe against the New Deal, The New Yorker, TIME ("major house organ for the American business class"), the post 1930 Soviet cinema. No less snappish is the Partisan Review theatre critic, Mary McCarthy (Mrs. Edmund Wilson), who breaks Broadway butterfly hits on an ironbound esthetic wheel. At the peak of Partisan Review sophistication stands Art Critic Morris, whom practically nothing pleases. "It is something less than an exaggeration," writes Critic Morris with his characteristic faint shudder, "to state that the painting and sculpture being 'encouraged...