Word: adams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Author Roark Bradford gained fame with his negroid Bible stories, Ol' Man Adam an' Ilis Chillun (on which Playwright Marc Connelly based his Pulitzer Prize play, The Green Pastures), he failed to add to it with This Side of Jordan, an unpleasantly realistic, unpleasantly tragic novel of Negro life. Now he is back again on the side of the angels with a rambling, episodic legend of the big black buck John Henry, who is to the Cotton Belt what Paul Bunyan is to the North Woods...
...Celia," his early love, is dead; the Poet (he sometimes calls himself Adam) tries to keep faithful to her memory, but Lilith often makes him change his mind. He finds other distractions, too, "in the impersonal roundness of a bottle of whiskey orgin." Finally experience, wisdom, old age or lassitude rescues him from the bonds of the flesh: he is lonely but free. Cynical cinema-going readers may not be so sure...
...Adam Barfood was as sturdy as his name. Son of a Holstein village carpenter, he grew up to be as rugged as his father, and, hoping there was something significant in his parentage, determined to be a parson. But he was so interested in people and such a good mixer he had a hard time passing his examinations. No parson of doubtful sex, when he got married it was to a girl with fire...
...cynical old Bishop laughed at Adam, sent him to an appropriate, hard-drinking, earthy parish. Adam did well, but never in an earthly way: he couldn't get out of debt because he couldn't resist helping people. Still he was so comfortable he thought the world was progressing. Then the War came. His two sons were killed, his favorite daughter died of exposure. His parishioners turned against him, suspected him of stealing the church treasure, of burning the rectory to cover his tracks. His wife grew old, went nearly demented from grief and hard times. Gradually, painfully...
...groaned hunger-striking Mme Bosilka Pribitchevitch. But Adam Pribitchevitch, Valerian Pribitchevitch and Col. Milan Pribitchevitch starved stoically. They were grimly, emptily resolved that King Alexander should not banish to the remote, unsanitary village of Brus their brother, that great Croatian statesman Svetozar Pribitchevitch "One of the Founders of Jugoslavia" (TIME, June...