Word: horizonal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...torments in stream-of-consciousness. Virginia Woolf carried off the trick; Toynbee doesn't. Through the dense matting of symbolism (even the choice of tea cakes, the dropping of a cup, becomes symbolic), readers may extract many meanings or none. Guesses British Critic Cyril Connolly, editor of highbrow Horizon: "And what are these figures, but expressions of a deeper truth, of cycles of spring and winter, youth and age, death and rebirth, of the Mother who must become our enemy if we are to grow...
...troubles closer to home than the East Indica appeared on the southern horizon last night as the Dominican Embassy reported that a three-ship expedition was steaming from Cuba to invade the Dominican Republic. They told newsmen that the "expedition" was composed of two landing barges and one corvette equipped with cannon and machine guns...
Last week, standing firmly on good Midwestern earth, an American farmer viewed the world beyond the flat horizon. He had just finished three days' work, at an average of 16 hours a day, plowing and planting corn; he had even rigged up lights on his tractor so he could work nights, getting his crops in the ground. He considered the Marshall Plan they were discussing over there in Paris, and said...
...Over the Horizon. 89. In a theater season marked by revivals, John Gielgud won critics' plaudits for his acting and directing in: 1. Private Lives. 4. Volpone...
...small plantation communities 40 miles south of Little Rock, Ark. (pop. 88,000), cut a 20-mile swath of freakish destruction, destroyed over 1,000 houses and other buildings, killed 34 people. While rescuers searched the wreckage for more bodies, they kept a wary eye on the western horizon...