Word: cather
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rigorously simple and familiar saga, The Emigrants is made eloquent through the tone and the telling. Director Jan Troell gives life and substance to what Willa Cather called "the precious, the incommunicable past." Indeed, at its best, The Emigrants has the same feeling for landscape and incident (a man proud of a pair of new black boots, a death and burial at sea) that glistens in Cather's best work...
...credentials alone: all the other women distinguished themselves by their ideas and actions--in the arts, in the sciences, in religion and reform, in business and philanthropy. The biographers are noted scholars themselves--Anne Firor Scott on Jane Addams, Allan Nevins on Jessie Benton Fremont, Leon Edel on Willa Cather and Alice James...
...locked in a wintry cold, but even in summer the sun seldom shines full strength on the lonely fishermen, hired men and country women who inhabit it. They are stolid, they endure, but they are closer to Hawthorne's withdrawn New Englanders or the overworked pioneers of Willa Cather's Midwest than to the comfortable, free-living suburbanites of today's affluent society. Perhaps they recall, to Presidents as well as to ordinary people, the bitter hard work that went into making a nation...