Word: hearse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sick Shell. Duncan gets a sense of dislocation as soon as he hits the once-sleepy town of Bradysboro and hears a booster babbling about the "threshold of a new era." At his family's disintegrating tobacco plantation, he finds his father a sick shell, echoing with remembrances of...
"In America," he said, "one seems to be caught between the well-meant alternatives of moralism and positive thinking on the one hand and fundamentalism on the other. In Europe the preaching is on a deeper and more dogmatic level than here, but the churches are empty all too often...
He cannot see, even for a moment, through another's eyes, and so modification of his own vision is impossible. Instead, he hears, classifies, and reacts to the ready-made categories, ad infinitum. Loneliness is a narcotic, and like a narcotic we find it very difficult to escape, despite our...
Sullivan Sans Gilbert? As a composer, Bernstein has suffered one curious fate: his serious music, at least, is almost never played by others. If Conductor Bernstein did not come to the aid of Composer Bernstein, it might never get played at all. The main case that can be made against...
When the Jews of Warsaw made their despairing 1943 insurrection against the Germans, the underground felt unable to offer armed help. Korbonski's radio team flashed the news to London as they watched smoke and fire rising from the ghetto (said Korbonski's wife: "It will be easier...