Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Volcano, an ambitious effort to analyze a modern type of disintegrated personality and to make it universal, failed in the second aim; but his descriptions of a Mexican setting were memorable. The finest short stories of the year were perhaps V. S. Pritchett's It May Never Happen and J. F. Powers' sketches of Catholic clergy in Prince of Darkness. Lionel Trilling's The Middle of the Journey was a thoughtful but disappointing study of New York liberal intellectuals. Saul Bellow's The Victim, for the most part a well-controlled blend of realism and parable...
...Just Thinking." One day last week, in the early afternoon sun, Giuseppe stood staring at his steam roller. "Well, Giuseppe, what are you doing there?" asked a worker, one Tomaso Sonnino. "Nothing. Just thinking," said Giuseppe. "Wondering what would happen if nobody could stop this thing. This one and all the others, just rolling on forever...
...Jews he blames for all the world's ills, says that they started both World Wars and that he would ship them all to Madagascar if he could. That gets him onto another race: "Within the century there will be 120 million Negroes in the U.S. What will happen to the white...
...Brother, that is damned rough reading. You report that 25-30,000 of my own fellow Americans, who are disfranchised politically, are facing malnutrition and starvation during the winter now approaching. So, all government propaganda and all government giving to Europe to the contrary-it can happen here...
...When a fellow gets rushed," the undertaker apologized, "mistakes are bound to happen...