Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Life of an Amoeba...
...sense of vicarious lawlessness from the ghost of an ancestor who was a smuggler; a woman abandons her fiance to the ghost of a woman he has never known. The best of them, The Beast in the Jungle, is a harrowing portrait of a man who waits all his life for a great experience and then, realizing that his fate is to be one man to whom absolutely nothing happens, throws himself on the tomb of the woman whose love he did not return...
...later novels, James wrote: "Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had? . . ." The idea of experiences missed or untaken was the ghost that haunted Henry James...
Like father Day in Life With Father, Dad Gilbreth pretty much ran things his way; but there most of the resemblance ended. Whenever Dad Gilbreth, returning from a trip, turned in at the sidewalk of his Montclair, N.J. home, he whistled "assembly call"; it brought freckle-faced kids from upstairs, basement, backyard and even the next street. Sometimes his signal meant that he wanted to take everybody for a ride in the big Pierce-Arrow. "How do you feed all those kids, mister?" folks would yell when the car had to stop for an intersection. His favorite answer: "Well, they...
...Good Naked Eye. The book is as bland and amiable as Dad Gilbreth's rejoinder, a sometimes hilarious, sometimes tiresome story of life in the first quarter of the century. Yet nothing between the book's covers is as remarkable as its runaway bestselling...