Word: epilog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election eve broadcast, last speech of his campaign. "Our healing . . . will be revealed by the still small voice-that speaks to the conscience-and the heart -prompting us to a wider-and wiser- humanity." On came the voice of the announcer, reverent and tender, as if speaking the epilog of a sad and stirring drama: "And so, quiet falls over the study in Topeka, Kansas." Three hours later the Sunflower Special chuffed out of Topeka on its last trip, taking the Republican Nominee back to his home town of Independence to vote. Some 5,000 of his neighbors were down...
...drifting dust that followed when drought, heat and winds struck the acres that should never have been plowed. From the Dust Bowl in their automobiles, in the summer of 1935, emigrate 30,000 refugees a month to seek whatever jobs they can on the roads leading Westward. Epilog of the film shows how the Resettlement Administration is transplanting 4,500 stranded families to new houses on small farms in ten States...
...Kroysing fall in love, and when she promises to marry him he forswears his vengeance on his brother's murderers. They have one night together before a French airman's bomb blots out Kroysing. Bertin, nearly all his friends dead, sets out for the Eastern Front. An epilog shows Bertin in 1919 going to call on the Kroysing parents, to tell them "how their sons had died, and in how pitiful and futile a fashion; they must be made to understand that it was no deed of heroism or sacrifice, that had robbed them of two young...
...from Shaw's heart instead of his head. A great, noble warmth suffuses the narrative from the time the tomboy Maid (Miss Cornell) makes de Baudricourt's hens lay in order to persuade him to horse and arm her, to the time she. reappears in the modern epilog as a mailed member of the hierarchy of heaven...
There is one bit of self-revelation in the last page of the book of which your review-did not take advantage that is needed to complete your picture of its author. In the epilog Mario is made to tell Santayana that, "The trouble with you philosophers is that you misunderstand your vocation. You ought to be poets, but you insist on laying down the law for the universe." And that, Santayana remarks earlier in the volume, is "simply the tragedy of the spirit when it's not content to understand but wishes to govern."... B. H. KIZER Graves...