Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drawing, "Once Upon A Time." It is a simple sketch of a woman, aged and wrinkled by care and hard work, sitting with hands folded in her lap in a bare tenement room which looks out upon factories and smokestacks. Her face has a far-away expression and every detail of it and of her eyes are so well and carefully done that it is almost possible to see the nearly-forgotten happy memories which are thronging her brain. There are indeed few artists today who could equal the feeling and pathos of this picture...
...included adaptiveness, a willingness more prompt than among other peoples to dismiss the old and try the new. . . ." The footnote: "Mr. Herbert Hoover thinks this point should be emphasized. . . ." "The Twenties." Like its five best selling predecessors, "The Twenties" is lively, readable, honest, superficial, rich in color, anecdote and detail. Occasionally bumbling in literary style, it lacks coherence, is reflective but not philosophic. No great creative thinker, no intellectual delver into the remote why & wherefore of things, Author Sullivan has laid for future historians of the period an indispensable groundwork of fact and atmosphere. His story of the 1920 Republican...
...tell. That he would go there was his firm conviction, voiced in many a revival sermon. Just how he would enter Heaven, whom he would find there, what he would say to Jesus and what Jesus would say to him he once told a Kansas City congregation in great detail (see above). Billy Sunday spoke frequently of his death. He exclaimed: "I'd like to pass out with a Bible under my head." In Chicago one night last week the onetime baseballer who had preached to 85,000,000 people and. by his own estimate, converted...
...Silas Crockett, third novel of Mary Ellen Chase, 48, Smith College English professor, whose Mary Peters was one of last year's more durable bestsellers. Covering the history of the Crockett family from 1830 to 1933, it is packed with data on U. S. shipping, describes in detail the fate of each of the many Crocketts as they descended the scale from clipper ships to schooners, to coastwise steamers, to fishing smacks, to ferryboats. Silas Crockett II ended up working in a herring factory. Less a novel than a family chronicle, it is filled with glowing tributes...
...with Hemingway's own fiction Green Hills of Africa must be put down as a successful experiment. With its swift narrative and its human conflicts it is as carefully organized as a good novel. The clearly visualized African landscapes' lovely in their panoramas, dense and difficult in detail, the remarkable variety of the hunting episodes, above all Ernest Hemingway's passionate absorption in the sport, combine to give the book the freshness and immediacy of a vivid personal experience. Moreover, the "idiotic abundance" of game, suddenly encountered after trying periods of inactivity, inspires