Word: gettysburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...GETTYSBURG (308 pp.)-Earl Schenck Miers and Richard A. Brown-Rutgers...
...life occurs, symbolically enough, on a Great Day in American History--Johnny Shawnessy is married (to a girl from the South) on the day John Brown is hanged; his son is born on the first day of the War; his wife goes mad simultaneously with the Battle of Gettysburg; and so on. His boyhood friends become symbols of American types--the ruthless financier, the self-improving politician, the cynical intellectual. And more subtle symbolism continues, page after page. More and more we see Shawnessy's self-identification with the County, with the river (which flows in the form...
...time of John Brown's execution. Their child is born on the night after the cannonade against Fort Sumter. Then Johnny learns Susanna's secret: she fears her mother was not the woman her father married, but his mistress, a handsome mulatto. During the days of Gettysburg, her mind finally gives way and she burns down the house, killing her child...
...files his favorites in a little black book, which he carries around with him). An ardent student of military history, he also likes to debunk such heroes as General Custer (TIME, Aug. 18), and to refight old battles (once, toting an armload of Civil War books, he visited Gettysburg and reconstructed the battle so vividly that his account is now the official one taught at the Army War College...
...last Saturday afternoon when, in accordance with an old habit, he had started to dedicate his first drink to some aspect to local football, and found himself completely stymied. This was unprecedented. Even in Charlottesville, a last minute inspiration had provided him with a toast to the battle of Gettysburg. But this time there was no such flashing light. So Vag had downed his drink in three gulps, quickly poured another, joined a burbling group in one corner of the room, and sworn off football games. In other words, said Vag to himself he was unusually frank in these conversations...