Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...this alliance between the "intellectual" and the "worker" has been often tested out with various, but always notable results. The French Revolution might be called an example; the Russian Revolution, another, and the success of the Labor Party in England a third. Such an alliance is not as outlandish as some are inclined to think. It is, in fact, an alliance of experts--of skilled workmen, although the laborer works with a trained hand while the "intellectual" works with a trained brain. A mutual respect prevails, based on a mutual appreciation of highly necessary qualities. And it is hardly exaggeration...
...been so before" is the universal cry. "Whence comes the Christ? Is he a fitting leader for us refined and sanctimonious folk?" Bellows' Christ makes no reply. Bellows says he did not strive for an outlandish effect, a strange interpretation in painting the picture...