Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Says Saroyan: Cops have hearts and streetwalkers souls; it is interference, institutions, authority that degrade humanity. And in a gush of feeling, he preaches a benevolent anarchy of live-&-let-live. That feeling gives his play warmth, faith, also a measure of falseness. For to exorcise evil and unhappiness, Saroyan has to make the world cockeyed and alcoholic, and all its outcasts childlike and starry-eyed. His mushy idealism turns his play, with its god from the slot machine, into a fairy tale. Saroyan takes the bread & butter of existence and smears it with...
...Hedda, you know how rumors are. Since Betsy returned to the East to live near her parents and friends, people have been trying to attach some importance to our geographic separation. More than that I'm afraid...
About the immediate cause of angina, doctors know practically nothing. They suspect that the violent pain arises from some kink in the nervous system. Standard treatment is rest, easy living. Anything may bring on an attack: anger, bad news, indigestion, physical strain, and each attack may be the last. A victim may live several decades, may die in an hour. To ease their agonizing pain, most sufferers carry a supply of tiny nitroglycerin tablets in their pockets...
...head. He discovered strong homosexual tendencies in her. Both tried to be broadminded. ("Have a sweet time with Amy, who will do you good," said Edith.) They quarreled, made up, took extended vacations from each other, wrote passionate letters back & forth long after they had ceased to live together as man & wife. At last, ill, frenzied, half-insane, Edith demanded a separation, accused him of trying to put her in an asylum. When she died (in 1916 of pneumonia) Havelock recalled with anguish a remark of Queen Victoria's after her husband's death: "Nobody contradicts...
After 260 pages of ingratiating and painful romance, in the reliably glamorous Civil War-Reconstruction setting, Heroine Emily Fenwick settles down to her real business. That is, for 700 pages and 60 years more, to live out the whole vast length of her life, the trivial with the towering, the bitter with the sweet, as the essential Perfect Woman; married, raising a family, standing at the center of its vicissitudes, learning, at the end, to "believe at last with whole heart in all the dark splendor, all the terrible beauty of the world." Her flawless marriage darkens and dulls...