Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago Author Paul shifted his gaze to his homeland, started a multivolumed story of his life. In My Old Kentucky Home he takes a look at the third U.S. community on the Paul autobiographical itinerary: Louisville...
Paraphrase the Weather. In The Primitive, the author is betrayed by his subject. Feikema wrote in his earlier books of the natural elements, and Nature was adequate to absorb his emotions and his song. He was always likable and often convincing when he described the earth and sky and the changing seasons or paraphrased the weather report out in Sioux-land. When he writes of the intellectual life of Christian College, he is seldom as likable and never convincing. At best, he doggedly describes freshman themes, the lectures and the changing curricula. At worst, he peevishly rehearses "the arid...
...looks as if matters may well get worse as Author Feikema is more thoroughly cribbed and confined. At the end of The Primitive, Thurs headed East. Part Two will find him and Author Feikema in the toils of the city slickers, 700 miles farther from home...
...make his memoir consistently interesting, Author Paul would have had to present himself as a compelling personality, or his characters as three-dimensional realities. Readers will give him low marks on both counts. Eighteen-year-old Elliot appears only as a set of eyes & ears collecting gossip about the people around him; and the people themselves are named, framed with an anecdote or two, then written off in a few pat parenthetical paragraphs. With a long way to go before his peripatetic life story is brought up to date, Author Paul already sounds a little weary of the whole project...
...Author Merton (now Father Louis of the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, in Kentucky) such a life seems the surest way to bring a man close to God. What he finds lacking in it is enough time for contemplation. As he complained in The Seven Storey Mountain, "The life is too active . . . too much...