Word: heartlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This Was It." "I was spoiled," she sobs on her deathbed. "I was bitter and heartless, but if God allows me to live a while, I'll try to undo it all. . . I lived for what was to come, and in my foolishness didn't know that this...
...nudist cult . . . Where do you put your change, cigarettes and matches? [But] we've urged outright rebellion against any and all social edicts which say a guy has to pull a hot jacket over a carcass which already, probably, is steaming like a 1908 Maxwell. Down with any heartless females and etiquette fanatics who'd still like to see us looking like boiled lobsters and feeling like steamed clams." The News confidently headlined...
...rooks at a mowing, careful readers watch for a rarer bird-the writer of first-rate short stories. In 1932 a fine specimen came along. James Stern, a young Irishman, published some stories about South Africa, where he had lived for a while, in a book called The Heartless Land. In 1938 he brought out another collection, Something Wrong. British critics had high praise for both volumes; only the first was published in the U.S., in a small edition. Said Author Christopher Isherwood: "James Stern is, as far as I know, the most unjustly neglected writer of short stories...
...painful, powerful picture of concentration-camp barbarism records a horror intimately known to millions; 2) its villain is, conveniently, neither Fascism nor Communism but a machine age which has dried up love and compassion, and 3) the U.S. is presented as a rich, prodigal but heartless partner of the totalitarian in the diabolical job of crushing the individual...
...world, says Gheorghiu, it is the U.S. that most fervently worships the twin cults of bigness and the machine. Author Gheorghiu (who steadfastly refuses to visit the U.S.) offers his novelist's proof: his heroes, sure they can count on justice from the Americans, get a heartless shake in U.S. Army P.W. camps...