Word: breakup
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handling of mature, accomplished characters, his mastery of suspense, his trick of giving his characters homely, human reflections at exalted moments in their lives. Unique among French novels, The Thibaults tells a frank, sometimes scandalous story with deceptive innocence, makes the most hackneyed theme of modern fiction-the breakup of a family-fresh, unexpected, unusual...
...such moments I can tell you for certain that this is the breakup, the cataclysm, the drop-curtain on the world. . . . In the Abbey they are still marking the places in the hymnbooks, oblivious of the fact that tomorrow we shall have forgotten how to read. . . . In London they are dancing round the Walpole. . . . In Calcutta the black sweep is wandering with crumbs in his eyes, touching the untouchable, and eating the uneatable. . . . It is all being washed up towards a madness never before seen. The heretics themselves are appalled: are building themselves Arks from the flotsam of the imagination...
...pale-faced, silken-voiced Herbert Read, who occupies the magnificently ambiguous position of arch Surrealist apologist and editor of the Burlington Magazine, England's most conservative art publication. Presented by Professor Read, the Breton manifesto led to a bitter tiff between Communist and Trotskyist members, finally to a breakup. Last word came from Gallery Director E. L. T. Mesens, who suggested that the English Surrealists had never been worth their salt anyway, having always abstained from such direct action as driving horses into theatre foyers on first nights of distasteful plays, or "letting off revolvers in the street while...
...other hand relations with Italy went from bad to worse, and in the past few weeks, because of certain diplomatic technicalities, have become sorely strained. With the breakup of the little entente, with the unpopularity of the Czech and Russian bonds, with the threat of Germany and the reversals of their interests in Spain, France is fading into eclipse...
...next couple of weeks, and at present that seems very probable, chances of beating Princeton are excellent. If not, it is going to be another uphill struggle, for as Bolles himself says: "If we don't get out on the water until March 15th, the usual time for the breakup of the ice, we will have to make up for the difference in rowing time with a pile of inside work. To get out sooner would give us a better chance against Princeton...