Word: green
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Guns cracked, the green-and-yellow flag of Brazil fluttered in the warm November breeze, the burghers of Rio de Janeiro lifted many a frosty glass to the traditional boast-toast: "God is a Brazilian...
...humming Justice Department arsenal, sat a burly, pale, bush-haired man who smiled a smile of utter content. None knew better than C.I.O.'s John L. Lewis how heavily this barrage of antitrust action must fall on his erstwhile chum, A. F. of L.'s William Green...
...question mark tiepin which Mr. Green always sticks in his flower-patterned neckties symbolized last week not only his personal anguish, but that of many a building-labor chief. Many a citizen still remembers the tie-ups between gangsters and building unions in the Roaring Twenties; that it was from such men as Jake the Bum, oldtime A. F. of L. criminal, that Chicago and New York gangsters learned numerous tricks of the trade...
...Julian Green is a Paris-born Southerner who has preferred to spend most of his 39 years in France, and to write in French. His novels are disturbing, as distinguished, and as subtly disciplined as the dreams they resemble. Last week he set beside them selections from a journal (1928-39) in the editing of which his chief concern has been "to interest a reader whom doubtless I shall never meet."† As frequently happens in the handling of serious work in the U. S., his publishers tried by various jacket ruses to disguise the book as a popular commodity...
...Green's journal is an anthology of the things which an intelligence of a high order has seen, heard, talked of, cared for, feared, felt, thought, during the past ten years. There is an obsession, as readers of his novels would expect, with death; a strong interest in the "macabre" (a word he nowhere uses); a pervasive fear of war, of revolution, of the end of civilization; the constant meditation of a devout man who has abandoned formal religion. There are "portraits" of Gide, Stein, Cocteau; excellent observations on painting, sculpture, music, films, above all on writing...