| National Conference of Social Work (U.S.). Annual Session - 1921 - 542 páginas
...the question. I had expected, as all of us no doubt would have expected, something more nattering. "They are busy building a new world, a new civilization,"...into glossy mediocrity, and she rebelled in fear." To such a standardizing and standardized civilization comes the immigrant, uncouth, outlandish, quaint... | |
| Sinclair Lewis - 1920 - 472 páginas
...comparison. The universal similarity — that is the physical expression of the philosophy of dull safety. Nine-tenths of the American towns are so alike that it is the completes! boredom to wander from one to another. Always, west of Pittsburg, and often, east of it,... | |
| André Siegfried - 1927 - 376 páginas
..."national publicity." The following quotation from Sinclair Lewis's Main Street is no exaggeration : "Nine-tenths of the American towns are so alike that it is the completes! boredom to wander from one to another. Always, west of Pittsburgh, and often east of it,... | |
| André Siegfried - 1927 - 376 páginas
..."national publicity." The following quotation from Sinclair Lewis's Main Street is no exaggeration : "Nine-tenths of the American towns are so alike that...it is the completest boredom to wander from one to another. Always, west of Pittsburgh, and often east of it, there is the same lumber-yard, the same... | |
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