Word: butted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Religion," he said, "is not primarily a matter of beliefs but a blend of aesthetic and moral attitudes." His opponent claimed that these "attitudes" could not exist without beliefs.
The parts for the most part are handled adequately. Kilty is excellent as old Tarleton. He says, "In the theater of life everyone is amused but the actor," and then goes to "contemplate his destiny."
"Here is New York" is rarely analytical; it is through emotional, so effectively emotional that few readers will be able to reject the sensations that it offers. But the only readers who will fully appreciate White's book will be New Yorkers, who have lived among the profoundly felt New...
From this simple arrangement Mr. Bowles seeks to establish the lack of moral and social authors which permits the tides of life to push us all about one way or another. But the lurid quality of Kit's refuge in the "friendly carnal presence" of the nearest male makes the...
Mr. Bowles has dropped several John O'Hara characters into a Prokosch setting and used them to establish the fact that the human race is going into a moral Sahara fast. It is difficult to picture these people going any other way, but at the same time it is unfair...