Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Displaying an attitude that is nothing if not cleemosynary a group of kind hearted Harvard students have adopted a pursuit that is balm in Gilead to the most dejected, the most completely submerged human beings in the United States, those people who write to the 'agony column'of the Saturday Review of Literature. Bringing a note of cheer into the drab lives of these people who have been denied a soul-mate by an unkind fate, the Harvardians pen notes of hope and encouragement every week...
With all his clever and sometimes shady deals and in spite of the fact that his harem did finally bring his ruin. Solomon lives in the literature of the Bible as one of the most human, the wisest, and a God-fearing man. This son of David, son of Bath-sheba, even as his wise words, has become "a proverb and a byword among the people...
...only human importantly concerned in the picture is a 14-year-old boy (V. Konstantinov) who falls asleep at a picnic where a companion has been reading aloud from Gulliver's Travels. Dreaming, he thinks he is Dr. Petya Gulliver, sees himself cast up, after mutiny and shipwreck, on the desolate coast of Lilliputia. The tiny citizens bind his arms and feet with threads. The fierce police chief arrives in a nutshell armored car. The fire department of Lilliputia runs a hose into his mouth. An army of tanks hitched to a gigantic platform haul him to the capital...
...since Ernest Hemingway published In Our Time, a collection of remarkable short stories. Since then he has written two novels, a parody of Sherwood Anderson, a book on bullfighting, two more volumes of short stones. In all these he revealed his distaste for literary affectations, his admiration for simple human courage and physical accomplishment, his preference for warm countries, his distrust of people who use big words and indulge in easy generalities. But he has never formulated a statement of the philosophy that has guided him in his writing. Consequently, Green Hills of Africa, which contains such a statement, marks...
...comparison with most contemporary ''works of the imagination," even in comparison with Hemingway's own fiction Green Hills of Africa must be put down as a successful experiment. With its swift narrative and its human conflicts it is as carefully organized as a good novel. The clearly visualized African landscapes' lovely in their panoramas, dense and difficult in detail, the remarkable variety of the hunting episodes, above all Ernest Hemingway's passionate absorption in the sport, combine to give the book the freshness and immediacy of a vivid personal experience. Moreover, the "idiotic abundance...