Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story clearly exemplifies what had been in the mind of most Frenchmen in recent years. Like Abbé Lorent, they had hoped they would be able to collaborate with Communists in the national task of putting France on her feet again, only to realize gradually that every effort to get along with them was doomed to failure...
...recklessly sets out to pin the crime on the dead husband's valet (Louis Jourdan). In his infatuation for his client, he is incapable of imagining that she may be guilty. In his jealousy, he suspects an affair between the valet and the accused lady. Making a headlong effort to defend her, he brings on a suicide and his own virtual ruin...
This first book is the impressive result of a bold, if not wholly successful, effort to write the Great American Novel. It is also the latest and plainest sign that native American and recent European traditions of art and thought can flow together and that this cultural Mississippi, though full of snags and shallows, may be one of the brightest things moving in the world. Raintree County is a historical novel of Indiana by an Indiana boy; it is also a philosophical novel (a rare thing in U.S. fiction), and a studied work of art that is striking enough...
...philosopher. "The moon," he muses, his travels over, "moved in her slow, inscrutable way across the heavens. . . . Nature has a great mystic purpose. But man founders. . . . Man, the one discordant note in the Symphony of Life . . . playing E-minor when the score calls for C-major." As an effort to prove that Tito is playing in a major key, The Silent People Speak is an atonal failure...
Forty-mile distant Worcester, where the car's license plates were stolen continued to supply the most promising angles on the smoke-bomb holdup, as a squad of detectives combed the city over the weekend in an effort to apprehend the men responsible...