Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a lean, ragged, jabbering man fell on his knees before the village church at Coggia. A cross dangled on his chest, a crude crown of twigs sat on his tangled hair. Hoarse with a stale fear, he shouted. "What have I done?" A peasant saw that it was Andre Spada, alone and half-witted. Peasants tugged at his elbow to make him rise and hide from the police. Spada pushed them away, rose and wandered about in a daze, jabbering to himself until gendarmes took him away...
...more tension; his practice was sufficient and not too exacting. For his most interesting patients medicine could do nothing. Cynthia, who lived just above him, was a young artist of genius who worked out her unhappy conflict into sad clay figures that looked like embryos. Emerence was a beautiful peasant girl from the mountains who looked strapping but whose blood was dangerously thin. Dr. Gion had to advise her not to have her baby, but he sympathized with her when she would not consider an abortion, even though she knew the birth would kill her. Young Toni was a ragamuffin...
...legitimate, although such grandiose heralding as "magic players in magic plays," and "brilliant repertoire," approaches the kissing of the Blarney Stone. It is doubtful whether Synge, perhaps the greatest of the Irish playwrights, as he listened through a chink in the floor of his upstairs room in a little peasant house where he lived to learn and understand the Irish, would appreciate this box-office phrasing. Since O'Casey and Yeats take it with a grain of salt, it must be necessary. The plays are simple and forthright in action. What has made them works...
...masses, but the Russian climate was too much for his bad lung; he went back to Capri and still lives there. But when he visits Russia (as in 1928 for the opening of the Gorki Museum) crowds cheer him. Tall, gaunt, droopy-mustached, with wrinkled brow and a spreading peasant's nose, Gorki's bass voice rumbles kindly tolerance. He has put all his bitterness in his name...
...Author. Panteleimon Romanof (no kin to the Russian royal family) is known to some U. S. readers as author of the surprisingly light-hearted novel, Three Pairs of Silk Stockings. Of peasant origin, he was 33 at the Revolution. He began his literary career by writing humorous short stories, failed to get an audience till the Revolution gave him one. Famed in Russia for his easy, straightforward style, his knowledge of popular psychology, he is no rigid propagandist for "the Party'' but a shrewd observer of the Russian people...