Word: fragment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred percenters? They weren't hit by a bullet or a shell fragment. Instead they . . . were hit by a bug who took up living quarters in their lungs, making them 100% disability cases. Or they contracted heart ailments, arthritis...
...Housman, late master of the bittersweet lyric, got a further unveiling as a comic poet by Brother Laurence in The Atlantic. Fragment out of A. E.'s boyhood, quoted by Laurence from memory...
...easy engagement to win. The seven-hour whole of Henry IV is a magnificent but multiform, a spacious but sprawling stage piece. Large as it is, even the two-part play is a rounded fragment of something larger-of that turbulent pageant of ambition and treachery, of glory and vainglory, known as Shakespeare's chronicle plays. Even that greatest asset of Henry IV-the bestriding presence of Falstaff-remains a possible peril, for it requires notable performing to do him justice...
...present book is an autobiographical fragment in the same vein. The Blue Boy of the title is Giono himself. His father runs a little cobbler shop. His mother operates a small home laundry. Through neighbors he learns to distinguish Bach from Mozart, Scarlatti from Rameau. A strange, dark visitor to his father's shop gives him Hesiod, Homer and the Bible to read...
There are a few exceptions: ". . . documentaries, which have . . . only very limited opportunities to distort life; frank melodramas, which have nothing to do with life . . . and the occasional pictures, one or two a year at most, which defiantly photograph some recognizable fragment of our common experience and generally lose a good deal of money...