Word: bagfuls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...public identity. This may be courage: more likely his soothing of the flock after the assassination is a method of control: Altman's last shot in the film, before he pans up to the sky, is of a policewoman, prim in her cap, marching through the crowd with a bag slung officially over her shoulder. Maybe the singing Haven Hamilton is a kind of fascist...
...hard to discern the parallels here, almost to see the play as a kind of roman a clef. The weak, frightened character who appears both as the mother of the Hubbard family. Lavinia, and as a neighbor named Birdie Bag try, a young flower wilting on the broken vine of old Southern aristocracy, seems to be drawn from Hellman's own mother, the former Julia Newhouse. Like Living, whose one fixed idea throughout the play is to embark on her "mission" to teach "the little colored children." Julia constantly took refuge in religion, mouthing the words to prayers or ducking...
Thomas Crooks had just edged into a pew, carefully placed a small brown paper bag on the seat beside him, and opened his hymn book to the morning's responsive reading. "He brought me up also out of an horrible pit." Crooks mumbled along with the dozen other people in the dark, cool chapel, "out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings...
Crooks swept up his paper bag, smiled, and said he was fine, perhaps thinking as he did that if it were not for Hammond there might not even have been Morning Prayers that morning. Last summer Crooks cancelled the prayers because so few people attended, but Hammond and others for whom the prayers had been a way of life for years protested gently and Crooks reinstated them. It was probably all for the better. Crooks enjoys the prayers himself, after all; one morning each summer he leads them himself...
After leaving Hammond, Crooks walked across the Yard to Matthews Hall, where he dropped off his paper bag, which contained two zucchini squash from his garden, at the office of the coordinator of the Health Careers Summer Program. Then he stopped in at Lehman Hall for a minute to borrow a morning Globe from Eddie Burke, the superintendent of Dudley House, where Crooks used to be master. He took the Globe into the Dudley Senior Common Room and quickly scanned it for a review of the previous night's Summer School concert; no dice. Walking out, Crooks called to Burke...