Word: pointing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Boston, now backfield coach at West Point, replaces J. William (Biff) Glassford, who resigned to become head football coach at the University of Nebraska...
Hoey (N.C.) Can anyone point to any measure which would be in the interest of the American people which has been defeated because of the existence of this rule? . . . There is no citizen in any one of the States who cannot pay $1 or $2 a year if he wishes to vote . . . We hear many talk about segregation as if it were discrimination. . . In reality it is just the reverse . . . God made the different races, but He did not combine them. He did not consodidate them. He did not mongrelize them...
Insists Marquand: "I still don't think [Wickford] is like my family." But, Apley and Wickford included, his best writing has been about the lives and locales he has known from boyhood. He thinks B.F.'s Daughter, which preceded Point of No Return, failed to come off because its locale, wartime Washington, was a transient experience for him. The middle-class axis he draws on best runs from Newburyport to Boston to New York...
Heads v. Walls. In Point of No Return, readers will find the most skillful elaboration of the typical Marquand novel theme. Charley Gray, the boy from Spruce Street, does well enough in life, but there are some things he cannot attain when he most wants to, some things he can never attain. He cannot close the gap between Spruce Street and aristocratic Johnson Street in his boyhood town of Clyde, Mass, (for which, perhaps, read Newburyport). Jessica Lovell lived on Johnson Street and was in love with Charley Gray, but it was clear from the start that snobbery wouldn...
...many of Marquand's readers, Point of No Return will seem a little more troubling and pessimistic than most of his works. But Marquand thinks that man is slowly growing up and that man's hope lies in a prospect of greater maturity. "Most people," he said, "never grow up. The thing we've got to do in our institutions is try to build up more maturity. Mature people are happier. At least they can rationalize the world in such a way that they are not going to beat their heads against a wall. I certainly think...