Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carefully--to study Stalin's statement thoroughly, in terms of both its phrasing and its timing. But this study should be to determine the nature of the negotiations, not whether they ought to be attempted. So long as there is the slightest glimmer of a possibility that the Russians may be seriously interested in casing the present tension, then they should be given a chance to do so. And certainly such a glimmer exists, at the very least. So let us find out just what Stalin has in mind. Let us launch a peace counter-offensive, and perhaps everybody...
...Hamblett May...
Long before the end, readers may ask themselves the same question. The Hollow of the Wave fails to explain the social dilemma of its drifting characters and falls equally short of lighting up the sources of their individual despair. Even the Communists' victory over a bewildered liberal seems of no more interest to Author Newhouse than it does to his hero, who acts as if he expected defeat all along and manages to shrug it off. Having dived from his old Marxist crest, Novelist Newhouse himself seems still to be washing about in the hollow of the wave...
Though these stories may seem mere half-sad, half-merry anecdotes, they are actually incisive portraits of European Jewish life. Through Tevye's irony, they underline the weaknesses of that life: "I was . . . asking questions of the Almighty and answering them myself ... I wasn't worried about God so much, I could come to terms with Him . . . What bothered me was people...
...stories, published in paper booklets, were passed from hand to hand among European Jews. When he died in The Bronx in 1916, more than 100,000 people lined the streets of his funeral procession. He had said: "Let me be buried among the poor, that their graves may shine on mine, and mine on theirs...