Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe that the fault lay with the writers of the peace treaties, and they came to think of Germany as the innocent victim of the war. Had they turned to the National Socialist Party, leaderless though it was, they would have done better, for at least "its roots lie deep in the nation." Instead old and young have looked to the Junkers, experienced in rule, reactionary, and, like the Bourbons, learning nothing and forgetting nothing...
Fitz, playing in Gibb's place in the Harvard Freshman backfield, bore the brunt of the ball carrying in the third period until his fumble deep in the Worcester territory cost him his prestige...
Engineer Scott noted some ways this is done. Cars are wider than they are deep...
...Joseph Conrad's method of spinning a yarn. Faulkner's is roundabout, circular: sometimes the suspense is awful, sometimes merely interminable. Like Conrad, Faulkner makes his people coherent to an unlikely and omnireminiscent degree. Unlike Conrad, Faulkner depends on madmen for his best effects. From the vasty deep of nightmares and bogeymen he can summon up ghosts that haunt nurseries and still frighten some grownups. With fewer bogeymen than usual, a happy issue out of some of its afflictions. Light in August continues the Faulkner tradition by a murder, a lynching and a good deal of morbid fornication...
...leave off loving me. Let's wipe off all that Judas-Jesus slime. Remember, you have betrayed everything and everybody up to now." Critics may dig long before they strike a better summation of Lawrence than one he gives himself: "And my Cockneyism and commonness are only when the deep feeling doesn't find its way out, and a sort of jeer comes instead, and sentimentality, and purplism. But you should see the religious, earnest, suffering man in me first, and then the flippant or common things after. Mrs. Garnett says I have no true nobility?with all my cleverness...