Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment that thousands of U.S. moppets would long remember. Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy,* had just leaped, with suitable sound effects, from a plane. The hero wore a suit of armor and two parachutes. But one chute failed to open. Then it developed that something was wrong with the other chute, too. Jack plunged earthward...
Prime Minister Attiee and his government survived by a narrow margin the onslaught of opposition leader Winston Churchill and division within their own ranks. Churchill last night called the Government "economic crisis" bill the equivalent of creating a dictatorship whose leader might be discarded at any moment...
...next moment, listeners all over the U.S. heard father's voice. Father said: "I'm going to let you have it in the belly, see, so you can bleed to death nice and slow...
...book is a hellbox in a wider sense: about two-thirds of the stories record brief episodes of evil. O'Hara is an expert at ugly moments, probably the best expert in contemporary U.S. writing. Like many of his stones, these have such painful audibility that they make life itself seem an ugly moment unduly prolonged. The figures in his Inferno are mainly Broadway, Hollywood and resort people with a few professional criminals thrown...
...just as well have died then, Forster implies; everything after was anticlimax. It is not the finding of beauty, but the seeking of it, that counts. The man who attempts to isolate his paradise in Other Kingdom loses the one thing that makes it worth having. In The Eternal Moment, a woman novelist captures the primitive beauty of an Italian village; but her book unwittingly turns the village into a tourist center, and destroys it. Says Christ, in one of the stories: "There is no abiding home for strength and beauty among men. The flower fades, the seas...