Word: northeasters
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Like its predecessor, that great & good seller Death Comes for the Archbishop, Shadows on the Rock is concerned with the American scene, colonial times. But Authoress Cather has moved from Spanish Southwest to French Northeast: the rock her story shadows is Quebec, at the turn of 1700. If you expect to encounter shades of Wolfe and Montcalm, of the storming of the Plains of Abraham, you will be disappointed; the story does not move that far (Quebec fell in 1759). There is not so much as an Indian fight and even the deeds of pioneering derring do are all messengered...
...promising, perhaps. But Authoress Cather is better than her implicit word: if she does not hold you breathless, she never lets you nod. And when you have finished her unspectacular narrative you may be somewhat surprised to realize that you have been living human history. Willa Cather's Northeast passages are never purple. Captious critics might complain that she sometimes simplifies too far, that her people are sometimes so one-sided as to be simply silly, that she sometimes, for one who can write like an angel, gives a fair imitation of poor Poll: "When Pierre had made...
...first destination was Copenhagen, thence to Mr. Hillig's Steinbrucken. But the weather, none too good during the Winnie Mae's crossing, had improved not at all in the next 13 hours. Expanses of fog were relieved only by rain; cloud banks were broken only by a northeast gale. For 17 hours the flyers saw no water. Early in the morning Pilot Hoiriis spiralled the plane down through a rift in the clouds-and there was land! It must be England, dead on the path of Copenhagen. Any moment they expected to sight the English Channel beyond...
...From northeast Yunnan a missionary reported that in his district 98% of the men smoked opium, 40% of the women. Two-thousand-horse opium caravans "frequently" (according to another missionary) trek north from the "Opium Capital" in Szechwan, the city of Chungking which boasts 100 morphine factories, 150 opium shops and 4,000 dens?all licensed, legal...
Many a strange and wonderful thing happens in California. When the Sacramento River near Rio Vista?40 mi. northeast of Oakland?receded fortnight ago, the headless body of a young Hindu was found sitting bolt upright, chained to a tractor wheel. He was identified as Sant Ram Pande, 32, engineering student at the University of California. The method of his identification was remarkable. Only three weeks prior he had insisted that his fingerprints be recorded by the State Bureau of Criminal Identification. He had then set out to find the slayers of 13 Hindus who have been murdered...