Word: angells
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Look Homeward, Angel's schoolmam Margaret Leonard, Thomas Wolfe wrote: "It was the most tranquil and the most passionate face he had ever seen . . . If he noticed her emaciation at all now, it was only with a sense of her purification . . . One by one the merciless years reaped down his gods and captains. What had lived up to hope? . . . Enduring, a victorious reality amid his shadow-haunted heart, she remained, who first had touched his blinded eyes with light, who nested his hooded houseless soul...
...There were a few "sweet young things" in popular novels (e.g., Rose Kramer in Ruth Suckow's Kramer Girls'), but they invariably escaped their fate by marrying or becoming secretaries before it was too late. The rest were like Thomas Wolfe's teacher in Look Homeward, Angel ("a gaunt red-faced spinster, with fierce glaring eyes"), or like Sherwood Anderson's frustrated Kate Swift, "silent, cold, and stern...
...fussy, pedantic, strict ("his rod and his ferule were seldom idle") and frustrated ("The darling of his desires was to be a doctor, but poverty had decreed that he should be nothing higher than a village schoolmaster"). Wolfe's idea of a schoolmaster, also described in Look Homeward, Angel, was "a plump, soft, foppish young man . . . who wore always a carnation in his coat...
...Theater (Sun. 2 p.m., NBC). J. B. Priestley's Angel Pavement...
...priority list of projects, which is headed by funds for scholarships and General Education. Gifts to the University labelled "unrestricted" are usually applied to these projects, and it is unlikely that there will ever be any money of this sort left over for a theater. Should an "angel" appear with a bag of money intended for a theater, however, the University would now accept this "restricted" gift--something it has not done in the past...