Word: froing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Presbyterian Missionary Brown once jovially compared himself to Satan in the Book of Job, who spent considerable time "going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it." He was born in Holliston, Mass., and never lost his love for the hard old New England way of life, with its boiled dinners and God-fearing Sundays. He admired the iron and certainty of the traditional Calvinist theology, "stern and rockbound" like the coast of Maine...
...tall fellow with fragile hands, a fragile manner, and a coldly unsentimental eye, and he has now come to New York to stage William Inge's forthcoming Natural Affection. This is the story of an unmarried mother (Kim Stanley) whose son returns fro'm reform school, shows raging jealousy toward her lover, and eventually becomes a murderer. Despite its grim outline, Inge can be counted on to have loaded the whole with rich marblings of mawkishness. Richardson can be counted on to melt the mawkishness away...
...whose inhabitants are all the lonely, half-crippled, emotional misfits who exist on the pallid fringes of the everyday world. It is presided over by a weird, bodiless, placeless woman, Thora Pattern, from whose papers the story purports to be taken. Roving back and forth in time, to and fro in her subjects' minds, Thora Pattern records the edge-of-the-alphabet lives of three people seen on a boat trip from New Zealand and in London after...
Icicles fitted the long window With barbaric glass. The shadow of the blackbird Crossed it, to and fro. The mood Traced in the shadow An indecipherable cause...
...thought Biff, "I guess it's not a coffee-house." He watched Jane disappear and then turned away dejectedly. "I've miscalculated," he thought. He looked around him and saw students with happy faces walking to and fro. "Strange," he thought, becoming philosophical, "life is going on as usual, but right under our noses there is something horrible." It was four o'clock, and the afternoon sun was casting long shadows; the Yard looked oddly serene. Two students passed Biff and broke his reverie by speaking loudly...