Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Died. Pearl S. Buck, 80, whose compassionate novels about life in preCommunist China (The Good Earth, A House Divided) earned her both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes (see BOOKS...
...shrewd looting of a local rich man's house during a rebellion? Well, it was both uplifting and escapist literature for Americans harassed by tumbling stock prices, declining job opportunities and general disillusionment with a society that had disappointed them. Published in 1931, The Good Earth made Pearl Buck rich, and, at the relatively late age of 39, an instant celebrity...
...Pearl Buck, who died last week in Vermont at the age of 80, was well qualified to do just this. She was born Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker in Hillsboro, W. Va., in 1892. But her parents were Presbyterian missionaries, and the family soon went back to China. Her father believed that he had to mingle with the Chinese if he was to influence them toward Christianity; he wore Chinese dress and even grew a queue. Pearl was tutored by a Confucian scholar and spoke Chinese before she spoke English. All her playmates were Chinese, and she realized that she was "different...
After college in the U.S., Pearl returned to China and marriage with John Lossing Buck, an "agricultural missionary." Said Pearl later: "I married a handsome face, and did you ever try to live just with a handsome face?" She tried for 18 years, during which she and her family withstood more than a troubled marriage. In 1927, revolutionary Chinese troops invaded Nanking in an orgy of looting and the slaughter of foreigners. A Chinese peasant woman Pearl had befriended offered her and her two children a hiding place in her own small hut. Said Pearl later: "I too have...
Linda Greenhouse: I never heard anything about that headline from Pearl Harbor Day but it reminds me of an apocryphal Boston Globe headline which was created by Paul Corkery who inexplicably isn't here about an event which would take place...