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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Pearl S. Buck, 80, whose compassionate novels about life in preCommunist China (The Good Earth, A House Divided) earned her both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes (see BOOKS...
...shrewd looting of a local rich man's house during a rebellion? Well, it was both uplifting and escapist literature for Americans harassed by tumbling stock prices, declining job opportunities and general disillusionment with a society that had disappointed them. Published in 1931, The Good Earth made Pearl Buck rich, and, at the relatively late age of 39, an instant celebrity...
...Pearl Buck, who died last week in Vermont at the age of 80, was well qualified to do just this. She was born Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker in Hillsboro, W. Va., in 1892. But her parents were Presbyterian missionaries, and the family soon went back to China. Her father believed that he had to mingle with the Chinese if he was to influence them toward Christianity; he wore Chinese dress and even grew a queue. Pearl was tutored by a Confucian scholar and spoke Chinese before she spoke English. All her playmates were Chinese, and she realized that she was "different...
After college in the U.S., Pearl returned to China and marriage with John Lossing Buck, an "agricultural missionary." Said Pearl later: "I married a handsome face, and did you ever try to live just with a handsome face?" She tried for 18 years, during which she and her family withstood more than a troubled marriage. In 1927, revolutionary Chinese troops invaded Nanking in an orgy of looting and the slaughter of foreigners. A Chinese peasant woman Pearl had befriended offered her and her two children a hiding place in her own small hut. Said Pearl later: "I too have...
...kinds of corn or the ecological dangers of weekend snowmobiling. By describing rather than preaching, he conveys a broad sense of people's lives and of political problems. He writes with a great deal of feeling, often nicely understated. He describes city slickers moving in to make a quick buck or to enjoy the country on weekends at the farmers' expense, and the giant farm supply corporations which generally make farmers' lives miserable. But he doesn't bludgeon you with self-righteousness or drown you in sentiment. He realizes that he doesn't have to; the political facts and personal...