Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once more?an attempt as a tutor ? as an actor ? as a tutor again, and this time an interval of peace, of what was almost luxury, as the protege of a rich banker. Then a deliberate return to the slums?the impulse to write?to probe into odd corners of life too strong to be denied. At last the edge of the precipice?no reasonable future in sight?abruptly followed by what proved salvation?the offered editorship of a new political weekly. The book ends there. " I was to be a politician and journalist until I had learned...
Perhaps the most striking example of productivity is furnished by the Spanish author, Lope de Vega. This remarkable man turned out more than 1,800 plays in the 73 years of his life, and supplemented these by 400-odd "autos sacrementales". He occupied as position of literary dictator similar to that held by Voltaire at a later date and his death was widely mourned as a national calamity. But few men have heard of this author--once universally famous--except as a mere figure in histories of literature. His plays--all but two or three-have been forgotten. And parallel...
...things. wealth, a house, even Egyptology- and incessantly the passion of human revolt against the material bonds that hold humanity to the clay. The ending is inconclusive, as in most such struggles-the material characters get their material desires-the less commonplace agonists are liberated after a fashion, in odd ways that do not seem to bring them much of what we commonly call happiness...
...these periodicals are very interesting-even more fascinating, perhaps, for an occasional reading, to the layman than to the professional whom they more directly concern. Curious words-odd advertisements-the plots for a hundred stories are in them for the taking. And the theatrical weeklies are among the most interesting of them...
...Carnegie Corporation has set a lofty example in faith by giving over a million dollars to the American Law Institute for restating and simplifying the common law of the land. A more appalling task could scarcely be imagined. Not only are there decisions out of a past, hundred odd years to be culled but also in the future are the annual grindings of forty-eight state legislatures and one national legislature, all interpreted by a country-full of courts...