Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newly enfranchised Navajos came to see the man they call Dogi Cligin (Black Mustache). At Albuquerque, Dewey declared extravagantly: "National income is now at such high levels that we can build our military strength, reduce our debt, and still see to it that taxes are less of a burden on our people...
...Gift & the Burden. Out of a thorough steeping in Hawthorne's Notebooks and in his journalistic work, which James and many others have loftily disregarded or deplored, and in family records and diaries never touched before, Cantwell has retouched that portrait. These sources have enabled Cantwell to take his subject out of the shadows, to estimate sensitively the influences that formed him, and to recreate the New England life about...
Hawthorne's imagination was, to put it simply, both the gift and the burden of his life. He was "deep," and brainy enough to see and explore with detachment the dangers, for one of his heritage, in the life of imagination. For generations that heritage had been profoundly Puritan. After his sea-captain father died of yellow fever in Surinam, his mother lived in Salem as a recluse; his uncle, Robert Manning, took charge of Nathaniel's education and alienated the boy thoroughly. He became evasive and apparently indolent, writing in puns and private language to his sisters...
Playing the role of Bob Chapius in the Crimson single-wing attack this fall will be Jimmy Noonan, Chuck Roche, and Jim Kenary. They shoulder most of the passing burden. Noonan has been particularly impressive in practice drills, and seems to have acquired more finesse than he had last fall. Roche is another much-improved athlete...
...Miss Spencer implies, can fully extricate himself from the evil of the heart which winds through the lives of generations; no man can remove the burden of his ancestors from his back. Only a frank recognition of one's involvement in evil can bring any sort of relief from it or triumph over...