Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invade Japan, is the notorious Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto. Seigo Nakano, who was a next-door neighbor of mine, is a director of the organization. From the second floor of our house, we could see over the high bamboo fence into his garden where often the Black Dragon functionaries would gather. The police who "protected" his place often came to eat in our kitchen when they wanted foreign-style cookies or rare coffee...
...massive Enjoyment of Art in America fulfills its role as "the only comprehensive attempt ever made to gather in one volume the treasures ... of art which are housed in the museums of North America." Authors are Regina Shoolman, secretary of the American Institute for Iranian Art and Archeology, and Charles E. Slatkin of Brooklyn. In 295 pages of critical text they gloss the book's pictures with 17 brief, illuminating guides to periods and schools of the world...
...obstructionists were defeated this time. But the closeness of the 40 to 29 vote reveals how strongly they are united in the midst of the war. When a weary people turns aside from its vigilant path on the arrival of Armistice II, they will be prepared to gather like vultures at the peace conference and suck the blood from any vital attempts to establish harmony among nations...
...United Nations will commemorate the Czech Student Massacre. Last year's anniversary saw sporadic demonstrations in England and Canada. Students who marched through the Arc de Triomphe were met by Nazi rifle fire. The United States was worrying about convoys. But tomorrow students in all the remaining free nations gather together pledged to fight for, and to attain, a world in which freedom of inquiry may again be a property of all. The systematic attack on education and liberal minds has been a steady auxiliary of Fascism's progress, and the Axis will have been stopped only when free colleges...
There is no Dreiser or Sinclair Lewis in the book; but Dreiser's effects depend on cumulative mass, and Lewis' great talents were not for creative but for reportorial writing. Unfortunately, there is no Scott Fitzgerald, either. The editors also went wrong on Thurber and Willa Gather, who deserved better selections. Southern writers are perhaps too generously treated. With these flaws, it remains a solid anthology. Among the selections...