Word: fragmentism
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...Marmion,† with his 'Charge, Chester, charge; on, Stanley, on,' could die more bravely than that fragment of mouse 'consciousness...
...because, one of the least integrated of the big oil companies, it has long specialized in lubricants, only lately going into gasoline, and has never had much crude production of its own. For many years after the 1911 dissolution of the Standard Oil trust, Vacuum was a particularly prosperous fragment. Lately its position in the lubricating business has been cut into by outside competition. The union with Socony means a source of crude supply as well as a large gasoline business to supplement the Vacuum line of lubricants. And for both companies it means greatly increased resources in their bitter...
WHEN Mr. Raysor states, in his admirable introduction to this first complete and accurate edition of Coleridge's Shakespearean criticism, that "the fragment was the literary genre which was natural to Coleridge, and only in the fragments of marginalia was he entirely himself," he anticipates the present reviewer's reaction to the work in hand. In the first of these two carefully edited volumes appear all of those extant fragments while in the second are contained the reports of the poet's numerous lectures on the subject...
...mugs. He would sit by the hour at a table as the lovely women and the little stone mugs came and went listening to an orchestra somewhere in the distance playing "Tales From A Vienna Woods," in such a fashion that "Woodman Spare That Tree" seemed almost a presentable fragment of verse. But in late years the Hapsburgs have fallen, the Vagabond has gotten too old for travel, and Vienna is now a dissected corpse which communist interns try in vain to assemble...
...sales tremendously, but in most cases the Boston book censor is not worthy of this reputation for the detection of horrid words and passages. As an example of this the first part of "World Without End" appeared some years ago under the title of "As It Was." This fragment of one of the finest and tenderest love stories in recent years was suppressed soon after its appearance in the Boston bookstores. Now under a new title and the story continued until the death of Edward Thomas in the War the book is apparently being tolerated by the guardians...