Word: peculiare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absolute master of the kaleidoscopic novel, the peer of Dos Passos at his best and even of James Joyce in the penetration and fertility of his imagination. Threads in the lives of his multitude of characters are picked up at intervals and followed long enough to make clear the peculiar problems of each, both in their relation to individual character and to the general pattern which was Paris in 1908. Always in the background is the "rumble of the distant drum", the cataclysm of 1914. Yet the reader is never made to feel that he is looking back...
...different in this respect are the other negroes, who seem to be seldom outside the church. Where modern amusements are either too far different, too expensive, or too wicked, the meeting-house bell is heard by all. Mrs. Peterkin has depicted the peculiar religious zeal of the rural negro with humor and understanding. Her description of the frocked deacons, the collection plate en parade, "testifying," and the weird frenzy of the confessional "stomp" seem incredible to one who has not witnessed these things first hand. A more lofty spiritual tone pervades the sonorous "lining out" of hymns to those...
...abstract will-e-the-wisps which Galsworthy and his characters alike pursue. Its analysis of social questions is clear enough, but one would like to know as definitely as possible what is Galsworthy's idea of "the beauty and the loving in the world." Again, what is the peculiar disability that in spite of his recognition of the modern scene leaves him at a loss to resolve it either in his mind or in his art? If intellectual analysis of this sort is worth doing, it must be carried to a finish...
...Proud Peculiar Peanut...
...aching heart off to parts unknown. Net result of Kit's fierce attitudinizings is to remind the reader less of a Hemingway hero than of Carl Sandburg's fairy-tale character who. when asked: "Why do you always shadow us?" replied. "I ;.m a peanut, a proud, peculiar peanut...