Word: porch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey's automobile reached Pawling Village, 105 miles from Albany, at 4 p.m., exactly on schedule. Pawling was ready, too. The wood-pillared front porch of the 58-year-old Dutcher Hotel was bunting-draped. In the tree-shaded park behind it-which looks like all U.S. village parks from Idaho to Georgia-1,000 people crowded behind the roped-off lanes. Men, coatless on the hot day, women in summer frocks and bare legs, young girls in pinafores and bobby socks, waited for a look at their famous neighbor, the man who owns the 486-acre Dapplemere place...
...Front Porch. Tom Dewey had resolved that, if he must be in the spotlight, he would decide when it was to be turned on & off. Right now he was content to be a "front-porch" candidate. Last week...
Lazily rocking on his back porch Saturday noon, the star boarder of the Poon thought he smelt a seersucker burning. After a quick huddle and a fruitless search for their insurance policy, the amateur fire-sniffers voted 23 to 2 to let the place burn down. Someone, however, had already asked the local hose-and-axemen to "send a man over." He came, but he brought his friends: three engine companies, two hook-and-ladder trucks and one rescue squad. No smoke, no fire, obviously a false alarm. Whether or not the whole thing was a stunt to increase sales...
Catherine is chief of a dozen characters who move through Author Gordon's seventh novel like shrouded figures on their way to the graveyard. For The Women on the Porch is a desolate, often poignant, hypersensitive study of life in death. Its theme: that in the world of today the dead are more alive than the living, memories more tangible than reality. Its chief quality: a sustained mood of doom that pervades every walk of life and hangs like a fog over the Tennessee landscape...
...cold rage of Author Gordon's mood and prose gives The Women on the Porch literary distinction. Some readers may feel that, like the famed poem by her husband, Allen Tate, Author Gordon's novel might just as well have been called Ode to the Confederate Dead...