Word: growing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elsewhere in this first novel by 21-year-old Peggy Bennett of Apalachicola, Fla. there is still more hair-raising prose. The story, probably more or less autobiographical, is that of three children (the varmints) who grow up on the wrong side of the tracks in a town like Apalachicola. Author Bennett describes their environment sympathetically, and now & then probes their moods with humor and delicate skill. But more often she assaults her readers with rhetoric ("0 God, what jubilance, exuberance, terror and pain"), plagues them with questions ("What is love? . . . What are you, Pivot?"), emotes, postures, harangues...
...Verse Promoter Louis Untermeyer in Vogue, "are just not funny." (He meant lady writers.) He explained why: woman "has faced the universe and made her home in it. ... Men, sheltered by their women, have used the universe as their playground. They may work in it, but they never quite grow up in it." Women are not very funny as actresses, either, said he. His clincher: "There are ... no Marx Sisters...
...last of your earthly companions should be a happy place; it should leave you with the feeling that death is no curse, that all is not lost because of it. People will weep, of course, but give them a lift with beauty. Put living things around; flowers that grow, not bouquets that smell...
Corrigan expects to grow even bigger. He has set himself a 1947 program, exclusive of the DHC deal, which includes: 10,000 housing units in Chicago and Southern California; two skyscrapers, one in Dallas, the other in Houston; more office buildings in Fort Worth; 2,000 housing units in Dallas. Total costs should run well into eight figures...
Since the war, seeking retirement but not shirking duty, General Marshall had shown that, at 66, he could still grow and learn, and willingly tackle a thorny new subject with determination and an open mind. In a practical and immediate sense, his mission to China (see below) had been a failure; but it had also been a demonstration of his capacity to understand and his willingness to lead. In history's longer-sighted eye, it might turn out to have been a success...