Word: uncrowned
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...There was talk [in this meeting] of people coming home from Germany who had seen 'culture' in German villages which has made a certain impression. Our agitators must uncrown this German 'culture'. .'. . To draw an analogy: there are people in our towns and villages who hardly ever read and who are really very little developed, but yearn to dress more fashionably, to wear hats, even smoking jackets, and to use eau de cologne. . . . But by themselves and from inside themselves they are not cultured. Such appears to me to be the culture of the German...
Much like the unhappy sportswriter who predicted that Bob Pastor would uncrown Joseph Louis '04 of Detroit, I am going to place myself squarely on the end of a limb. In short, your favorite columnist's room-mate is going on record here with respect to the unfortunate controversy which so often recurs concerning the relative values of the contributions of jazz and "classical" to music...
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