Word: heavensent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Confusion's Masterpieces. Theodore Spencer, youthful Harvard instructor and poet (The Paradox in the Circle), is after bigger game than snarks. In Shakespeare and the Nature of Man, written with high intelligence and clarity, Spencer shows Shakespeare as the archetype of his age, in Elizabethan literature what Drake was...
No Surprise. For a moment we thought we had surprised the Japanese. Then suddenly heavy machine guns began to scratch the heavens with fire. We were hedgehopping, coming directly out of the moonlight. Every Japanese machine gunner seemed to get the bead on our bombing run as we skimmed low...
The Elder lives well on his followers' contributions, also runs housing projects, an employment agency, the Happy News Cafe. He denounces Father Divine as the "spirit of the devil incarnate," offers his followers no easy Divine-style heaven or sub-heavens. Instead, he warns them against being overoptimistic: "Some...
U.S. submarines harried them from the sea. U.S. planes pounded them from the heavens. During those brief periods when there was a rift in the nearly perpetual mists, U.S. and Canadian pilots swooped down on their shore installations and strafed their shipping. Flying blind, the pilots dropped destruction through the...
Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sales,