Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became a kind of Carryall Named Desire. Without taste or talent, ear for speech or eye for character, Playwright Hayes showed how a city boy's dissolute family and a country girl's disapproving one worked to prevent their marrying. Seldom has the course of true love run rougher-among souses and trollops, past theft and rape. Love eventually triumphed, but Leaf and Bough speedily closed...
...marry out of your Church, or you'll regret it all your life." So all Roman Catholic priests and many Protestant ministers warn their flocks. But most young people in love believe that love will conquer everything-including church dogma, ritual and customs...
...Love. A leading figure of the Jewish literary renaissance of the 1900s, Aleichem wrote with passionate love for the Jewish religious tradition; at the same time, he edged his stories with the skepticism that was sweeping European Jewry. He became the spokesman and critic of an entire people. When Tevye mangled a Biblical quotation, bemoaned his everlasting poverty, or quarreled with God (whom Tevye loved so well he could risk familiarity), Jewish readers could recognize both the story and its bite...
...poor young tailor. "What kind of a world has this become?" asked Tevye. "A boy meets a girl and says to her, 'Let us pledge our troth.' Why, it's just too free and easy . . ." But Tevye gave in; he, too, had an eye for love...
...second daughter married a radical, a good talker. Tevye poked fun at his son-in-law's ideas, but when his daughter followed her husband to exile Tevye was secretly proud. "Those daughters of mine -when they fall in love ... it is with their heads and hearts, their bodies and souls...