Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...district from which he springs, Antelope Mountain, is poor and frugal; its people are poor and frugal also, and their poverty is as much spiritual as material. The old problem of outgrowing one's own people, and with them one's early love, has been presented by Mr. Fisher with great power. In Vridar the impact of a new life has not yet been resolved; part of him can never be of Antelope Mountain, and part of him can not belong to Neloa Doole, whom he goes back to marry in the end, but he is closer...
...time that he lies to his diary. Every windy, youthful vaunt is, we are told, unfulfilled; if Vridar omits the payment of a laundry bill, every detail of the transaction is coldly and unemotionally reported, until the reader wallows in a sea of sordid insignificance. In Mr. Fisher's love scenes the words "ecstasy," "tenderness," and "delight" are literally present; but there is no love scene which does not end in recrimination and violence, no meeting of Vridar and Neloa which is free from physical horror, blows, screams, and tears. Naturalism in character portrayal, when it is essayed...
...sudden love for Mamie, by whom he has another son, but whom he loses to the dissolute Jake Karcher, and the mocking success of the hated "hell-hole," incites him to a deeper love for farm and Georgie. There is a pathetic truthfulness in the father's struggle and efforts to keep his son's attitude like his own when he early realizes that the little fellow is not entirely out of sympathy with the glass industry. He tries to pass this off and the simple defense mechanism in his words "You and me is farmers nothing else" is strikingly...
...scholarship which universities need is that which is born of a profound love of its subject, which is nourished by years of thought in the company of other minds, especially in classroom and conference, which is tested by teaching, and which is matured at last as a book which shall enable men to live with greater charity and nobility. Socrates, the greatest teacher men have known, said that no one knew a thing if he were unable to impart it to others. Countless lecture rooms bear ineloquent testimony to the ignorance of scholars...
...Miss Sara is a noted character, the Lady Bountiful of the New England town of Sparta. But the things she has lived for-the family name, her brother, her father, the man she used to love-have failed her. She will be sorry to die but not unready. In 1930 the last of her idols falls. From his cheap French widow Sara hears the truth about her beloved brother: he was a wastrel who died a drunkard's death. In 1929 she sees for the last time the fiance who jilted her but with whom she has always been...