Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peter Blume could not forget his automobile trip. As he thought about it, images mingled as in dreams. The coal turned red like the sun or blue like Charleston Harbor. The Emden sailors seemed to soar from the decks like birds. All the time Peter Blume was trying to paint what he had seen. He finally finished his picture with red and blue coal, flying sailors, the Emden conning tower, the houses at Scranton, the harbor at Charleston all painfully lumped together on one canvas...
SCORNING all rules of writing and adopting as his one maxim, "forget anybody who ever wrote anything" a new writer, 26-year old Armenian William Saroyan, published his first book of short stories this month. Despite Mr. Saroyan's too evident desire to avoid classification, however, he is easily catalogued as belonging to that school of writing dominated by Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Edith Sitwell, so aptly labeled by Max Eastman as "the cult of unintelligibility...
...forget for a moment, though it is a difficult thing to do, that the author is striving constantly for a style entirely modernistic and subjective you may enjoy these flights of his into the realm of the mental processes. In any case you must road him in small doses in order to properly appreciate his achievement...
...must forget the past," said Father Koroshetz. "We must work and live for Jugoslavia...
...Rather the Trojans thought they were idols, though actually they were as toys to some henna-haired beauty or to a film magnate. They were wined and dined and made to feel the world was theirs, when they were really just pawns. ... If S. C.'s gridders can forget the false friendship of Hollywood and buckle down to the task of football . . . there is nothing that can stop them from vanquishing Pittsburgh Saturday...