Word: oneness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amazingly lean, dignified, taciturn gentleman appeared to help the girl. He was Sherlock Holmes, detective. A fantastic seer, he had but to scan the unevenlv shaven cheeks of his friend Dr. Watson to tell him that he had altered the position of his dressing table. Scarcely had he known one lady for five minutes when he announced in his croaking voice that she was obviously fond of Chopin. What criminal could have hoped to elude such a prodigy of penetration, such an immaculate and urbane nemesis...
...Vance runs the usual gamut of the literarily ambitious small-town boy; he discovers that he is no poet, goes home to Euphoria, gets a job on the local newspaper. But his ambition will not be downed: three years later he gets back to Manhattan on the strength of one published story, marries his Tracy cousin, is mildly lionized by literary society, has a succés d'estime with his first novel. His wife dies. Author and reader leave him desolate, planning to return once again to his native Middle West; but he will go on writing...
...that time until Death came for him in his Washington mansion (1904), Mark Hanna, as Senator from Ohio, "minister without portfolio," leader of the Senate, was very much in politics. In Ohio he was politics. Now and then someone was foolhardy enough to oppose him in his own state. One such, Robert McKisson, a Mayor of Cleveland with Senatorial aspirations, found in 1898 that Hanna's threatening figure was not a mirage. When McKinley was shot and the unpredictable Theodore Roosevelt stumbled delightedly into the White House (1901), Hanna's fall was hourly expected. But it never came...
...major role. The second tells the story of Clare Walker, leading her dwindling flock of sheep along the California coast toward the day when her baby will be born and she will die. Says Poet Jeffers: "There is some relationship between the two . . . poems . . . the shepherdess in one, and Judas and Jesus in the other, each embodying different aspects of love; nearly pure, therefore undeluded, but quite inefficient, in the first; pitying in the second; possessive in the third...
Poet Jeffers lives in a rocky tower on the edge of the continent at Carmel, Cal. He is one of the few living poets who write extended tragedies. Some consider him the most impressive poet the U. S. has ever produced. His verse is in long, unrhymed, irregular lines, usually powerful...