Word: grief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meaning in the Depths. Author O'Connor was a verbal magician whose phrases flamed like matches in the dark, revealing a face in a flash (a child's features contorted with grief into "a puzzle of small red lumps"), a life in a single insight ("a sniveler after the ineffable"). But the motivation of character and the imitation of life did not finally interest Author O'Connor. "The meaning of a story," she once wrote, "begins at a depth where these things have been exhausted...
...deeper. "There has never been anything like it in the world, and I want to forget it, force it never to have been, for fear of cursing my country, the mother who gave me birth on an autumn day in Kiev." But his hope is as large as his grief: "I firmly believe that man will triumph, and not the ape. I believe that Russia will enter the new century liberated and renewed in spirit, and that by then. Communism will only be a nursery bogey to frighten our grandchildren." As Tarsis proclaims through another character: "Haven...
...Good grief, you blockheads! It's about time Charlie and friends made your cover. Are they not society in a Peanuts shell? That was a terrific cover and article...
...Never is Charlie Brown called Charlie! It's like writing Amerigo when you mean Amerigo Vespucci, like saying Edna for Edna St. Vincent Millay. It's like saying Ponce or Genghis or Pontius. Good grief...
...Charlie Brown pattern, Sparky's life was one good grief after another. School was a "harsh and strict jail." Sparky skipped a year in grade school, but later atoned for that triumph by flunking every course and being left back. His one pride was his drawing skill, and he proudly submitted some sketches to the high school yearbook; inevitably, they were rejected. He joined pickup baseball games, but his team almost always lost. "People are skeptical about Charlie Brown's losing a game 40 to nothing, but I distinctly remember a day when our team was beaten...