Word: cains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the constant pounding, the Del Commune began to stagger. Her joints creaked. With every blow her decks seemed to buckle. She sprang a leak under the stern transom. Given time, she seemed bound to shake herself to pieces. "You just cain't go kickin' this river around this way," murmured one of Captain Joe's copilots. "You just cain...
...bond between the drawings of the engineer and the unformed hope of the man in the street; it is the force that overcomes the bickerings of allies, the conflicts of national prestige; it is the measure of U.S. responsibility for shaping the future. It is inescapable. Says Russell Davenport: "Cain never received an answer to his outraged question, 'Am I my brother's keeper?' But the answer...
...characters are humanity's archetypes. Mr. & Mrs. Antrobus (Fredric March & Florence Eldridge) are the eternal Mr. & Mrs.; their maid Sabina (Tallulah Bankhead) is Lilith, the eternal floozy; their son Henry (Montgomery Clift) is Cain, the eternal Dead-End kid. Their story is the eternal struggle between good & evil, the eternal seesaw of progressing and falling back. Mr. Antrobus comes home excitedly from the office, having invented the wheel and fixed up the alphabet-but the Ice Age has arrived. Next he swaggers fatuously about Atlantic City, backslapping his lodge brothers and falling for a bathing beauty-but the Flood...
...Love's Lovely Counterfeit Author Cain is in the groove again. Principal character is broad-shouldered Ben Grace, chauffeur to Sol Caspar, racketeer ruler of Lake City...
Love's Lovely Counterfeit is an expert thriller told by the most literate U.S. pulp writer. Incidentally, it reduces Author Cain's erstwhile social significance to trimmings as dutiful as the cherry in an Old-Fashioned cocktail...