Word: barest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Barest - GREENWICH VILLAGE FOLLIES...
...possible for a Victorian to imagine looseness; but did not take it to heart until Ann expounded to him the explicit creed of her unmorality. Terrified by realization of his religious failure as exemplified in Ann, Hugh resigned his worldly parish and became pastor of "the barest and humblest of churches." Ann settled down, in time, to suburban matronliness; rearing her children as conventionally as her stuccoed neighbors reared theirs. And the conflict between two generations came...
Doubtless, some there are who will miss the finally rounded periods, the pretty, artificial prose of more leisurely men. They will object to the monotony of the author's direct, simple sentences. True, there is nothing leisurely about Mr. Hemingway's style: he goes quickly to seize the barest vital essentials, presenting them in the most concise, dram- atic manner. This directness, this simplicity is necessary to the author's purpose, the presentation of reality. What man, we may ask, with more complicated literary machinery, has ever come so near that goal? Mr. Hemingway finds life a very crude...
Reduced to its barest terms, Carlton's resignation means that an A in History and Literature is more to be desired, at least by some people at Harvard, than the time-hallowed major sport "II". There have been others, no doubt, who thought the same, but they have either not been favored with the opportunity so clearly to indicate their choice or they have-found the pressure of public opinion and tradition too strong to overcome...
...especial satisfaction. The first is your statement that you like "to work with me, whether in opposition or in alliance." That seems to me a rewarding outcome of a long asociation. the other is your remark about my relying "on the Eternal for personal strength." I belong to the barest of the religious communions, and I am by nature reserved except with intimates and even with some of them. I feel glad that what has been, I believe, a fact in my inner life these thirty years past has been visible to a close observer in my official career...