Word: life
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left over, to be placed in the tabernacle on the altar. These reserved Hosts are believed to be-not merely to represent-the Real Presence of Christ. This perpetual Presence explains why, when a church burns, someone always attempts to save the Host, often at the risk of his life...
...cooperate. A piece of monstrous twaddle, so old-fashioned as to be almost refreshing, it concerns three generations of a hot-blooded Boer family who live somewhere on the veldt. The husbands systematically bully the wives, and the wives systematically bump off the husbands. Home life, between whiles, is saved from monotony by Satan (who arrives so punctually each day he could just as well deliver the mail), assorted ghosts, the old lady's coffin (which, pending its final function, she uses as a kind of chaise longue), windstorms, shotguns, sluts from the city and the black influenza...
...observant realistic comedy of banal family life, it is probably closer to the U. S. common denominator than Our Town or Life with Father. Much more of this life is skim milk or spilt milk than cream. It is a chronicle of vanishing dreams and growing regrets, of crotchets and quirks, affection and annoyance, gossip and eavesdropping, small skeletons in large closets. It fails to be drab because, at 70, its people are still kicking their heels, raising their voices, cocking their ears. They talk ridiculous bromides, but with passion ; they make absurd gestures, but with feeling. They...
Despite its grim situations, Key Largo is not realistic drama but a philosophical sweatbox giving the third degree to a question that has agitated every mind from Shakespeare's to the corner grocer's: Is life a mere vicious muddle, or are there things worth dying for? Unfortunately it is a problem not to be solved by all the logarithms of philosophy, but by the simple arithmetic of each individual heart. Anderson is determined to use logarithms. His people look inward, outward, up, down, in prose, in verse, in gestures, in glances, until every word they utter appears...
...crumbs spilled from the groaning table of the other social sciences.* But it has also been suggested that sociology be enthroned as the basic social science-a sort of central switchboard which would coordinate the others. Today sociologists are concerned with such things as family relations, social organizations, city life, crime. If cultural anthropology has concerned itself largely with the quaint customs of primitive tribes, sociology has concerned itself largely with the quaint customs of civilization...