Word: calf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What may be called modern fiction is apparently under the ban at Widener. "Alice Adams", "Main Street" and "The Age of Innocence" have slipped in, but "Moon Calf", "Zell" and "Miss Lulu Bett" are not on the shelves. Joseph Hergesheimer's books have a place, but only since last year; while James Branch Cabell has but a single volume listed under his name in the catalogue. And there is hope, we are told, for "Erik Dorn" and "If Winter Comes...
...golden calf which America worships" cannot be shattered by "quiet staid respectability." Nor can an intellectual aristocracy which hugs the fireside, and sips tea--or coffee, and fiddles with ideas "guide an amorphous democracy", intellectually or otherwise.' This is no time to indulge in neo-classic vagaries. Now, as never before, the world has need of its youth. There are vital problems to be solved, courageous beliefs to be voiced and translated into action...
...characterizes himself, "I'm the family skeleton; can't you hear my bones rattle?" Unable to abide the domineering influence of his father or his interminable demands for "an explanation" of each wayward act, William had fled to America fifteen years before; now he fails to find the fatted calf awaiting--in fact he receives a decidedly frosty welcome from all but his mother and sister. One brother, David, has become a meek and cringing rector, while George, the other, is a Conservative candidate for Parliament; both represent the views and ambitions of his father. The horror of the family...