Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question measures the very real distance she has traveled from the peasant roots of her people. But, as she has traveled, she has taken to new heights the best that Negro Americans are. For the Deep River of her life and theirs runs in the same religious channel. In her life, as in the spiritual, the Big Wheel moves by faith. With a naturalness impossible to most people, she says: "I do a good deal of praying...
...beyond the . fact that it was foreign. It was a nocturnal land of vast, shadowy pine woods, vast fields of cotton whose endless rows converged sometimes on a solitary cabin, vast swamps reptilian and furtive-a land alive with all the elements of lonely beauty, except compassion. In this deep night of land and man, the singers saw visions; grief, like a tuning fork, gave the tone, and the Sorrow Songs were uttered...
...Trianon proved so profitable that the brothers laid out $1,750,000 in 1926 to build the Aragon, which features Spanish-style towers, arched balconies, and a deep blue ceiling in which stars twinkle and fleecy white clouds float around. Says Bill Karzas, who never had time to polish his English: "We think what people want, we appeal to the five senses. We give good music for ear, beautiful place for eye, fresh air for smell, good chairs for comfort, and special ice cream for taste...
...subjects went so deep asleep that Hypnotist Peter Casson, in the flesh, had to wake them up. As a result of this private test, BBC decided to ban hypnotists from telecasting, pending further experiment. (One wag promptly suggested that there was no danger of British listeners being hypnotized to sleep; the somnolent BBC needed hypnotists to keep them awake.) "My goodness," said one BBC official, "think what would happen if everybody had a television set-as everybody will shortly-and a Hitler sort of fellow started working on them...
Hamstrung Republic. In the '303, out of the army and a prosperous consultant on industrial patents, Barea observed from the inside how German interests, especially I. G. Farbenindustrie, had sunk their hooks deep into Spain's economy. Meanwhile, the parties of the Left-Socialists, Anarchists and Communists- brawled among themselves. No republican government could get enough strength to put through reforms against the opposition of the caciques (bosses). Barea does a careful portrait of this ancient Spanish type in action-the landowner, moneylender and local boss who deliberately let the countryside starve to hamstring the republic...