Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those who are subject to alien control . . . Self-respect is not felt by those who have no rights of their own . . . Fellowship is not the mood of peoples who are denied fellowship . . . No nation is bound to sign the treaty . . . The only compulsion is the moral compulsion of grave circumstances. They unite us to say: Let us make peace...
They arrive over America. "This is the kingdom of death," says the wind in a grave voice. "This is the vultures' hideout. Here the monsters are laying eggs, destructive eggs. A single one of these eggs will burn everything, if it is dropped on a town. Women will weep and little children will cry over their dead mothers' bodies . . ." "Bombs, bombs, that's what you mean," stammers the little girl. But one deep, beautiful voice arises from America, below. "Who is that man singing?" asks the girl. "It is Paul Robeson, one of the greatest singers...
...more than a kittenish spree. A pigeon falls dead on the first page; Julia worries endlessly about not packing her good luck charms, "her egg with the elephants in it, her wooden pistol and her little painted top"; a spindly mystery man gibbers in changing dialects about the grave illness of somebody's stricken aunt. Like signposts in limbo, these point everywhere and nowhere. And Party Going's old-fashioned pastime-noodling flea-brained upper-class Britons-is next door to limbo. Writing this novel in the '30s, Author Green wrapped the comedy of a lesser Waugh...
...after all the mourners had gone, a cemetery official asked a strange question: "Was that boy an Indian?" While the coffin still rested above the grave, he explained that the cemetery articles of incorporation restrict it to "members of the Caucasian race." The body was taken back to the mortuary...
...undertaker went to the weather-beaten farmhouse where Evelyn Rice lives. She had been composed at the grave, but now she could not hold back the tears. "Why?" she sobbed. With her three small children around her, John Rice's widow tried to decide what...