Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lesson need be learned to divest the Christian mind of bourgeoisie habits of complacency, of class consciousness, of the fear of change and revolution . . . Preaching stations that cannot be effectively maintained may be discontinued. Inefficient clergymen may be advised to discover their livelihood in other services...
...plump 56, Gaines still rises at dawn, still likes to promenade about the campus swinging one of his 30 canes. He himself never forgets the traditions of W. & L. ("You may not be aware of it," he tells dinner guests in the president's house, "but Lee died in this room.") Nor can his minks, surrounded as they are by a statue of George Washington on the cupola, the bronze plaques that mark the places where Yankee cannon balls hit during the Civil War, the tomb of Lee himself, and the polished skeleton of Lee's favorite horse...
Little Women. A lushly romantic remake of Louisa May Alcott's genteel tearjerker, with June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret O'Brien, Janet Leigh (TIME, March...
...Peiping. For years Empson's work has been admired by people who would put their minds on it, and either ignored or jeered at by a greater number who gave it a fast superficial reading. The first U.S. publication of his collected poems means that the first party may be making a little headway...
...night card player in order to make his childhood sound tragic. He flies into a rage when he is called from dinner to attend a wounded woman who is having a premature baby. And yet the author has regarded Suprugov so compassionately that the reader may feel compassion for the wretch...