Word: drifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like the young people of most strict faiths, the new generation of Mormons shows a tendency to drift into unorthodoxy. Many rebel against the old rule against liquor, tobacco and coffee. The number of backsliding "jack-Mormons" is increasing...
...story is told in flashbacks by Navy Flyer Van Johnson to a notably patient fellow derelict, as they drift along the Pacific in a disabled plane. As a small-town boy Van wanted to be a doctor, and spent a lot of time with the little girl next door. He drank down the wild stories of his seafaring uncle (Thomas Mitchell) as eagerly as the uncle drank whiskey. The uncle's tales of the uncharted, paradisiacal island "High Barbaree" especially fascinated the boy; High Barbaree became his byword for all he ever hoped to do and be. While...
...Gallería is the heart of this loosely constructed first novel by ex-G.L, and onetime intelligence officer, John Burns. Sooner or later all his characters drift into it to drink, love, ponder or despair. There is no plot to relate them. Whatever unity Gallery possesses comes from Author Burns's ability to convey a sense of the tragedy that war has brought into the lives of the victors and the vanquished...
Westerners often have trouble catching the drift of these painted vapors. One who has no trouble is Princeton's George Rowley. His Principles of Chinese Painting (Princeton University Press; $15), on sale last week, is a well-illustrated and well-reasoned study of this elusive cloudland. Summarizing the Chinese approach to painting, Author Rowley lists four "categories of greatness...
...Chinese say that their painting is "like vapors and clouds which rise into space, gather around cliffs and drift over wide expanses...