Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other years the CRIMSON would have found such a condition of the country shocking. Courts would have thrown out the case against the Communists. America has never been a land of persecution. Here no one has been afraid to talk up; the police have not been permitted to keep files on the beliefs of citizens. When the situation has been momentarily altered, as in the period which gave a neighboring city unpleasant notoriety, or when a "Red Hunt" after the First World War put hundreds in chains, it has been to the shame of our nation. The fact that because...
...Trollope came prepared to appraise and evaluate the Union: it never occurred to her that from the moment she landed (at New Orleans) she herself would be the one to be roundly devaluated. To begin with, it was a "singular" shock to find that though every man jack of her American fellow travelers on the Mississippi chewed tobacco, reeked of whisky, ate with a knife and grabbed for the table "viands" with "voracious rapidity," one & all had apparently "arrived at high rank in the army...
...almost irreproachable author in a genre that is not"-the cleverly contrived story, amusing and suspenseful but not quite profound or true. Generous Biographer Steegmuller speaks of De Maupassant's stories in the same breath with Chekhov's, but many readers will feel that De Maupassant never achieved the warm, quiet sympathy and seriousness of Chekhov. Without those qualities De Maupassant takes his own special niche, close...
...most American novelists write first, the autobiographical novel. The Big Cage is the account of the education, boyhood, family life, first writings and first loves of a writer. It is the recurrent theme of recent American literature, the story of Look Homeward, Angel, of Moon-Calf, A World I Never Made, The Genius, This Side of Paradise and innumerable other tales of sensitive, gifted and egocentric youth at war with the narrow constraints of American culture...
...Inexperience. Neither Duke Sedgwick nor Will Davis had over played guard before in a game, and Davis had never even scrimmaged at running guard. When injured Howie Houston came in to take over at left guard, he was hampered by a lack of speed and timing...