Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over Jan Masaryk's open grave, a huntsman raised his horn and blew out into the chill spring the wistful air of the Czech national anthem Kde Domov muj? (Where Is My Home?). Because he was never quite sure where his ideological home was, Jan Masaryk had been hunted to his death by men who were very sure of theirs...
...picture is mere "minor" detail and incident: a summer storm, a Sunday Mass, an inarticulate courtship; baking, plowing, haying, threshing; the steady modulation of the days and nights and weathers and seasons across the land. And such images are the chief vocabulary in which the picture's grave eloquence is expressed...
...that Passage to India has inadvertently done a disservice to contemporary readers by its very excellence. It has laid too heavy a shadow on the imagination, casting each new work in the model of its grave and thoughtful characterizations and demanding of each something of the haunting real-and-unreal atmosphere that has come to be identified in the minds of Westerners as India...
There are other matters of grave interest to freedom-loving peoples, too-such as, What does the Italian Socialist really believe about America's intentions in sending him food, money and equipment? What does a man in Mexico feel about all of this U.S. attention to Europe when he has troubles of his own at home? Is the man on the street in Europe really interested in a United States of Western Europe, or is that just wishful thinking on the part of men like Bevin and Churchill...
...talk between now and November, "very, very little of which will be the truth." If the voters know the truth, he added, they "will not turn the Government over to a bunch of reactionaries who are trying to take us back to 1896. Conditions are too grave in the world at the present time to put an isolationist in the White House...