Word: maze
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This new book, then, is only a restatement of the old grim joke of those who start after the Holy Grail or the secret of the stars and end up in a maze of very stark, human, and rather pitiful desire. The men and women who take this pilgrimage are of all kinds, all equally well drawn. Mr. Burlap, the editor of a weekly paper who "believe in Life" and makes his paper do so too, is perhaps the most faithfully depicted...
...correct and fatuous happy ending--very satisfactory from the perfectionist point of view. One perceives in the first forty pages that dirty work is afoot; the dirty work is done; it is straightened out, and if, with the aid of a map inside the cover, one untangles the maze of proper names, one can comprehend and appreciate the situations in the sugar intrigue...
...drifts (tunnels), branching off from the vertical shafts. If the two weary prospectors who first jumped into the abandoned 6-foot pit tried to duplicate the feat today, they would fall more than a mile into the bowels of the earth. If they started to walk through the maze of drifts owned by the Anaconda company alone, they would not see the sunlight for 32 days. They would have covered 800 miles...
...makes his decision. The good path is represented as hard, encompassed by temptations, requiring purpose and fortitude; but the decision to be made is on each occasion clear. Moral earnestness is required, yet the choice is between obvious right and wrong. Such a choice would be easy. In the maze of life, however, the conditions are much more insidious. The alternatives are by no means always a rugged but righteous road that winds upward, and a pleasant way leading surely to ultimate perdition. Often the paths do not seem very different, or to diverge much; and a clear vision...
...party at least has stopped sidestepping. What will happen at Houston is still a question. It may be that some bright angel will be kind enough to lay a guiding hand on the shoulders of the Democrats, and lead them from the maze into the light of public demand. If so, there will occur the amazing spectacle of the two parties opposing in one and the same campaign their two outstanding men, and not dodging with compromise candidates that do not satisfy the parties, the delegates, or the nation. An amazing spectacle, certainly, and one that promises somewhat more government...