Word: forward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Satisfied with the present and looking forward to the future optimistically, Timothy Fuller, 23 year old former Crimson undergraduate and the author of "Harvard Has A Homicide" related yesterday the success of his novel and plans for his next works...
...honorable friend [Lloyd George] has found the secret foi perpetual youth, and therefore nobody expects him to play the part of an elder statesman! He has always advocated bold measures. He thinks I am a hard case, but he has not yet convinced me that the remedy he brings forward is the correct one." In suave English political life such words are a slap in the face, and friends of Mr. Chamberlain were in mounting fear last week lest he take the same hobnailed line as Prime Minister, an English job in which suavity is requisite...
Somewhat disillusioned now by his erst while Negrophile friends and acquaintances, Claude McKay looks forward to a "great modern Negro leader" who can think up a better solution to the Negro problem than taking them back to Africa...
...here with so many friends to soothe him and me me with him." Two months later she writes: "I have not got over it and never shall-It's better for me that I should not forget him but not for you, you have other things to look forward to." After that the references to John are increasingly few and far between...
...FORWARD FROM LIBERALISM-Stephen Spender-Random House ($2). Depersonalized testament of much-touted Poet Spender's "personal" approach to communism-with a small "c" to indicate his political celibacy...