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...childhood and terrified adolescence in the Idaho hills. Passions Spin the Plot finds him. a gangling youth of 19, on his way to Wasatch College in Salt Lake City. Though college has always been his dream of escape from the poverty-ridden nightmare of farm life. Vridar is very homesick. At first college seems wonderful, in spite of the grimy furnace room he inhabits, the scarecrow clothes he has to wear, the scanty food and few friends. Gradually his high idealism is undermined and he begins to see college as a picture of an unjust and meaningless world outside. "Forenoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King Christina | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 24, 1933 | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

Luther gets a girl for himself in Battle-burg, makes himself there a homesick kind of home. All day and every day for weeks the Tohannocks and the Hehonees stand in full Indian regalia in the capitol lobby for the assemblymen to see. All day, back home at Ball's Wharf, Sarah Sprouse, whose husband John has died, dreams of Luther. Finally she begins to write him love letters on the sly. But Bengo Sprouse finds out, tells his brother Willis, who is a deputy sheriff, and who has been making up to Sarah himself. When, after the Legislature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hehonee Hero | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

...jokes before embarrased burgers and their daughters in the Church, Square. He put frogs in the Papal Legate's bed. But his escapades led to the scaffold and Till Eulenspeigel danced for the last time, with his feet off the ground longer than ever before. The Vagabond is often homesick for Till, and he will go to Sanders Theater at eight tonight to dream of Till's sly tricks. There the Symphony Orchestra will play "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, after the Old-fashioned Roguish Manner" and the rascal of Brunswick will live again in Strauss's spirited music...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/10/1932 | See Source »

...element," continued Mr. Stefansson "Byrd was gone only about six months on his trip to the arctic, whereas the elder explorers used to stay away for five years or more." The reference to Byrd led to the interesting fact that the use of the radio in polar exploration increases homesickness, rather than diminishes it, as is commonly taken for granted by the public. If is a matter of actual record that Byrd had more trouble with his men being homesick in the one year that he was in Antarctica that Peary did in five years in the North...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Increasing Interest in Polar Explorations Due to Air Trips, Says Stefansson--Considers Submarine is Ideal Conveyance | 12/17/1931 | See Source »

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