Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wave had lesser crests, and in California spring tide seemed at hand. California the wonderland, California the rugged and golden, lies at that edge of the continent where the migrations that made the nation ended. There the last vanguard of pioneers halted and the rearguard of sick, halt, lame, blind, crooked and crazy have caught up. It is a home of saints and scoundrels, heroines and houris. There since Depression I has grown up a strange society in which men born in the great open spaces and hardshells with their feet two generations planted were artificially mixed with sunkist visitors...
With a few detours into blind alleys, David Coyle thus blithely and optimistically charges down the middle of his road to a new U.S. His moral is that business should be encouraged, not dismayed, by signs of CONSTRUCTION AHEAD. "The middle-of-the-road doctrine, adopted in this book," he explains, "is that the common theory of capitalism is not an iron law, but that capitalism is flexible enough to escape...
...Blind alleys are familiar streets in literary biographies. Writers seem to lose their way just when they ought to be going strong-as Melville, after writing Moby Dick, turned out the weird, confused, unreadable Pierre. Sometimes writers escape quickly; sometimes, like Melville, they are gone for good. But when a writer begins to follow his genius up a blind alley, all that admirers can do is wait and hope they will return together...
This week, when she publishes Black Is My Truelove's Hair, it is plain that Author Roberts has escaped from her blind alley in brilliant fashion. Her new novel reads like a folk tale of the Kentucky countryside, depends on no archaic trappings or high-flown language for its effect, takes place in a recognizable world of village gossip, youthful lovemaking, Kentucky feuds, with characters who are farmers, truck drivers, wise widows and runaway girls. The telephone and radio have reached Miss Roberts' countryside but the people have not changed much: they are superstitious, religious, poetic, great musicians...
More than any other writer of his rank, Ernest Hemingway tells his stories by means of pungent, unexpected, abbreviated dialogue. Characters are revealed in sharp, blind, tormented speeches which break through commonplace talk. In some of Hemingway's stories, notably Fifty Grand and The Killers, so much of the narrative is implicit in the dialogue that they read almost like acting versions. For these reasons many a reader has wondered how Hemingway would be as a playwright...