Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Window Shop became successful and financially stable under the guidance of Mrs. Elsa War Mrs. Brandstorm-Ulich had come to this dent until her death last year. Once known as the "angel of Siberia" for her work among prisoners-of-war in Siberia during the first World War Mrs. Brandstorm-Ulich had come to this country when Hitler came to power. Business growth forced the Shop to move once again, this time to the present Brattle Street site...
...bond issue to improve conditions in Negro schools, and persuaded Norfolk to pay the same salaries to Negro and white schoolteachers. On only a few occasions has the Guide used the frontal attack. After a Negro was convicted of raping a white woman and condemned to death, the Guide decided he was innocent. It defied local custom by printing the woman's name. A white man read the story, gave testimony that proved the case was a frame...
...often they ignore human emotions. Everything would be fine if only a patient could calmly accept the idea of an operation. But patients almost never do. Most people have psychological weak spots and most surgical patients are "apprehensive, anxious people, reacting emotionally rather than rationally." They fear death (many make their wills just before an operation), pain, disfigurement, loss of function. The fears are as much a part of the patient as his gallstones or diseased appendix...
...fiction. The romantic Meg still falls romantically in love, marries and has twins. Featherbrained Amy, as self-centered as ever and still suffering from the "degradations" of well-bred poverty, succeeds in catching wealthy Laurie (Peter Lawford). Little Beth once more wastes away, bravely and wistfully, to an early death...
...represents them with success. The life of maturity, as rendered in these stories, is a kind of macabre carnival in which the characters float, entranced, from one sensational rousing to another, and all the sideshows are put on by the powers of darkness. Figures that symbolize evil, dissolution and death are either beautiful or hypnotic; ordinary grownups are scornfully and crudely caricatured. All this involves a good deal of hectic overwriting. Truman Capote's first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms (TIME, Jan. 26, 1948), won loud praise from a few critics, softer praise from some better ones...