Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lynch machine. The sadistic, melodramatic physical details of his lynchings occur within an almost off-stage irrelevance. Their reality is the "white fog" of lynch terror which hangs over the Negro community, impenetrable to the brightest Southern sunlight. It is this central psychological core of Negro life in the Deep South, communicated in clear, unemotional prose, which gives Wright's stories their intensity, and a kind of impersonal eloquence in voicing the tragedy of his people...
...dramatic values are irony, sudden reversal, and skilful but not subtle symbolism. An example of each will suffice. The mother, a middle-aged actress, but still extremely attractive; superficial and selfish, but capable of deep love, continues to play lotto after her son, sensitive, talented and aimless, has killed himself, she accepting the doctor's assurance that the sound of the shot came from an explosion in his medicine kit. The same mother and son, in traditional Russian fashion curse each other for their respective faults and then fall weeping into each other's arms. A sea gull killed...
Concluding this tale, Negro Downs told of "the deep passion of hatred and despair which involuntarily boiled within me," described how he conquered it and subsequently addressed the Council on "What We Expect of Our Church" without once referring to his experience...
...examine, as realistically as possible, the factors which may govern '38's outlook on war. For the most part they are men without deep roots, family or financial. They are young men, in good health, and the prospect of an unadventurous, indoors, office life is unappetizing. And they are at that juncture in life where their most important and difficult decision must be made, namely what career to pursue. Anything to defer the necessity of making this decision is not wholly unwelcome. All this was true...
Pointing to the suppression of free speech and independent political parties, Professor Langer stated that Austria has been virtually a Fascist state since 1934. The question of "On whom shall she be dependent?" precipitated a deep-lying feud between Mussolini and Hitler, only glossed over by recent Italo-German amity, he said...