Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...critics realized on second thought, the Nobel Prize went to Pearl Buck only partly for The Good Earth. The democratic-minded Swedish Academy was also giving an accolade to Pearl Buck's sympathy for the Chinese common people, and to her telling attacks, in her magazine articles, on the dictators. The influence of her writing far transcends its importance as literature...
...such standards, The Patriot ranks with her best work. Aiming at twice the scope of The Good Earth, Pearl Buck this time pays tribute to the common people of Japan as well as China...
...Cardinals' conclave not as a cardinal but as a pope who was about to be crowned. His election to the papacy climaxes a career which was so regular and so certain in its unfolding that it almost seemed that Pacelli was fated to be Christ's Vicar on Earth. For from the moment when he was ordained, Pacelli never left the shadow of the Vatican: it was as if he was being familiarized with his destiny. And as Pope Pius XII he donned the triple crown which some said had been his for several years...
...only believes that the U. S. can and should be economically and commercially self-contained, but that by applying modern technology most other countries on earth can and should be also. An adequate navy, a standing army of 220,000 and two big oceans are Mr. Chase's final recommendations for peace for the U. S. through Super-Isolationism...
Playwright Hellman describes the Hubbards as people who "eat the earth." But she has not made them all of one piece: between the crude short-changer Oscar and his greatly aspiring sister is the difference between a rat and an eagle. Not instinctive, but icily calculating, is their family sense: the same greed which divides them among themselves unites them against others. Ben Hubbard perceives they are less a family than part of a race -a race of sharp-toothed, flourishing little foxes for whom the turning century promises a world of plunder...