Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaking informally, Professor Matthiessen defended the right of the Czechs to choose their own form of government, but asked that further statements be kept off-the-record, since he will discuss the situation more fully tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock in Eliot House Junior Common Room...
...Sydney, Australia, New South Wales Supreme Court Justice Ernest D. Roper granted an injunction to 23 outraged parishioners of the Anglican Bishop of Bathurst, Rt. Rev. Arnold Lomas Wylde, restraining the bishop from introducing "Romish" practices into his diocese. Departing from the Book of Common Prayer, Bishop Wylde was accused of introducing into the Communion service such customs as ringing the Sanctus bell and making the sign of the cross. Commented Justice Roper: "It is quite deplorable that members of a Christian community have been unable to settle differences without recourse to litigation...
...COMMON CHORD, STORIES AND TALES OF IRELAND (278 pp.) - Frank O'Connor-Knopf...
...common chord struck in all the stories-sex not as sensual experience but as a disturbing drive that leads people to behavior they can hardly control and but dimly understand. In one beautiful tale, The Babes in the Wood, O'Connor enters the shadow-world of painfully solemn, almost preternatural children who suffer from their elders' illicit affairs. O'Connor's bitterest stories are implicit denunciations of the sexual attitudes-or lack of them-of the prim, provincial and pious sort of Irishwoman. When a husband, desperately annoyed with his wife's unwifely reliance...
...doubt The Common Chord will be belittled by those who mistake lugubriousness for seriousness and who dismiss O'Connor as a minor writer unworthy of his master, Joyce. But to write a work of minor stature as well as O'Connor does is in itself a kind of triumph all too rare...