Word: bookless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years he has lived with Tolstoyan simplicity in a rambling dacha near Moscow, where he likes to putter in the garden. Twice married, he has three grown sons. Pasternak prefers to write standing up in his virtually bookless den. There he was touched recently to receive the first copy he had seen of the U.S. edition of Doctor Zhivago. Revealing the underlying pathos of his isolation, he asked his visitor eagerly, "Do you think Hemingway and Faulkner will read...
...heart of Yankeeland, where Mary Craig Kimbrough went to Miss Finch's school in Manhattan, all sorts of things other than magnolia hung heavy in the air, notably suffragists, single-taxers and Socialists. It was a Red dead sea full of poor fish dreaming of a bookless future. The biggest catch in it was Upton Sinclair, most renowned of muckrakers. whose novel The Jungle had assaulted the citadels of the Chicago meatpackers with the near-violence of a near-vegetarian. The book had been intended as an attack on porkpacking capitalists; actually it made the U.S. not sick...
...were big and boorish, the women loud, overdressed nitwits. When Jett Rink, the fabulous oil millionaire, gave a party, Leslie saw "Stetsons worn with black dinner coats . . . women in Mainbocher evening gowns escorted by men in shirt sleeves and boots." In the huge Reata house the library was bookless, the music room "mute...
Elsewhere in South Korea, there were schools in railway stations, in gutted houses, in tents and in cemeteries. With or without books ("Teach from life!" Paik had ordered his bookless teachers), students were flocking again to classes in geography, math, English, science, art and civics. The girls helped to support their schools by raising chickens and selling eggs; the boys were beginning to rebuild their classrooms. At Andong, students have already made themselves three new school buildings of basket-woven sides plastered with...