Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WOMEN ON THE PORCH-Caroline Gordon-Scrlbners...
Catherine is chief of a dozen characters who move through Author Gordon's seventh novel like shrouded figures on their way to the graveyard. For The Women on the Porch is a desolate, often poignant, hypersensitive study of life in death. Its theme: that in the world of today the dead are more alive than the living, memories more tangible than reality. Its chief quality: a sustained mood of doom that pervades every walk of life and hangs like a fog over the Tennessee landscape...
...cold rage of Author Gordon's mood and prose gives The Women on the Porch literary distinction. Some readers may feel that, like the famed poem by her husband, Allen Tate, Author Gordon's novel might just as well have been called Ode to the Confederate Dead...
Asserting that it was "nightmare to see how closely the present Congressional attitude towards our foreign policy resembles that of the last war," Gordon W. Allport, professor of Psychology, addressed 50 members of the Harvard Liberal Union, the Radcliffe League for Democracy, and the Post War Councils Wednesday night in the fourth of a series of five forums...
...Mostly icewater was Seven Days Ashore (RKO-Radio), which detailed the embarrassing simultaneous involvements of a merchant mariner (Gordon Oliver) with three girls. It was spiked by the presence of swart Comic Alan Carney, and there was a fine moment when haughty Margaret Dumont shattered a cocktail glass with a sour note in her rendition of Over the Waves. But the film is best summed up in one critic's quip: "Seven days can be a long time...