Word: harvests
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stability and permanence of their institutions was like their faith in the eternal course of nature. . . . [Then] in a moment we were the most warlike nation on earth. . . . We were not merely a people with an army-we were a people in arms. . . . Here are sheaves reaped in the harvest of death from every battlefield. . . . If each grave had a voice to tell us what its silent tenant last saw and heard on earth we might . . . hear the whole story...
...beautiful of his poems. In the '30s, taking hints in diction from his brilliant junior W.H. Auden, he wrote the poetic dramas Murder in the Cathedral and Family Reunion. Now, at an age (54) when the talent of many good poets is dead and buried, he publishes the harvest of his last seven years, these four "quartets." Of all his poems they are the most stripped, the least obviously allusive,* the least ingratiating in image and in diction, the most direct. They are set in a matrix of subtly intensified, conversational style. To many readers they will look...
Ponder on it, Bill. There are untold possibilities, the beauties of the spring sowing and the harvest, for instance, about which Wallace Woodworth could improvise a pastoral symphony in 100 voices. Can't you envision the swaying bodies of the reapers (brought in by the Student Union in truckloads from everywhere) and the rhythmic motion of their scythes. And then there are the social possibilities. Corn husking bees, with red ears a-plenty. Square dances in Dillon Field House, with chaff upon the floor...
...FIRST HARVEST - Vladimir Pozner -Viking ($2.50). Setting of this novel, by the French author of The Edge of the Sword, is a village on the northern coast of Occupied France. Blonde, 16-year-old Yvonne, a French girl who devoutly believes in truth, comes face to face with the awful consequences of honest dealings with the enemy. Rich in character studies of Nazi soldiers, Gestapo functionaries, French villagers, First Harvest is a dismal, moral tale of average literary merit...
...unusual plot conception adds interest to the story, but its triumph is the integration of plot will the delineation of character and scene to achieve a unity of achievement uncommon in undergraduate literary effort. Ralph Bennett has contributed an excellent account of an everyday incident at a barley harvest. More a narrative essay than a short story, this episode gains from Bennett's obvious familiarity with his material and from his facility of description and mood. The story, "Cold July," is neither exciting nor obscurely modern; it has the virtue of literary excellence...