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...retired in 1943, was the author of The Meaning of God in Human Experience, published in 1912. The book established Hocking as one of the lead-American philosophers of his time was described as "one of the most original, profound, and enduringly important works of this century in the borderland between philosophy and theology...
...Triple Alliance against Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay; out of a population of 525,000, only 220,000 survived, and only 28,000 of these were men. Again in the Chaco War of the 1930s, Paraguay took on Bolivia and won 20,000 sq. mi. of wilderness borderland-at a cost of one Paraguayan life for each square mile. Thus the prize won in 1954 by Stroessner, a veteran of the Chaco War, was a sleepy backwater, 600 miles by river from the sea, cobblestone-quaint but short on manpower and desperately poor. Only a few miles of roads were paved...
Taylor's territory is the borderland of Kentucky and Tennessee before, during, and immediately after the Depression. In these 16 stories, his themes are love, marriage, childhood. As he peels away the layers of the past, he finds in an early-morning walk to a drugstore or a family dinner implications of lives changed, misdirected, or ruined. In What You Hear from 'Em?, Aunt Muncie, the Negro housekeeper, retains a measure of dignity only as long as she can believe that the two white boys she raised for a widowed doctor will come back home to live...
Like her excellent (and unboxed) novel, Faces in the Water, the short pieces collected here deal with failure, loneliness, quiet despair, and the rubble-filled borderland between sanity and madness. But there was strength in the novel, and there is none in the stories...
...first collection of short stories may convince other Americans that they should go as far. West has a way of making American amusements seem as pleasant as murder-which would be standard fare from an angry young author were it not so hilarious. For West writes in a borderland between horror and humor that leaves a reader laughing and shuddering at the same time...