Word: rachel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...RACHEL'S CHILDREN - Harriet Hassell-- Harper ($2.50). The Biblical story of Joseph fitted to a family of Southern landowners, bossed by a tyrannical widow whose eventual insanity gives the story its faint echo of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. A first novel by a 26-year-old Alabama coed, a Story magazine prize winner of last year...
...Hull about a dentist's wife who wins a $10,000 novel contest; 3) a realistic report on New Year's Eve in a flop house, by Albert Maltz; 4) a whimsy about a girl whose poetic sprightliness enchants a middle-aged doctor, by 24-year-old Rachel Maddux; 5) a sentimental reminiscence of childhood by I. J. Kapstein. Main trouble with "novellas" seemed to be that they added length but no depth...
...volume of Thomas Mann's extraordinary Biblical novel, Joseph and His Brothers, made U. S. readers aware of the fuller meaning a great imagination could find in a bare, familiar legend. That subtle book of 428 pages retold the Old Testament story of the patriarch Jacob, his wife Rachel, and his sons, particularly his favorite. Joseph...
...Died. Rachel Peixotto Hays Sulzberger, 77, mother of Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times; widow of the late Philanthropist Cyrus L. Sulzberger; herself an active social worker (United Neighborhood Houses, New York parks Anti-Litter Committee, Aguilar Library Association); after long illness; in Manhattan...
...boilers. The account of Mother Duchesne's work-which did not come to an end until 1852-occupies half of Mother Callan's book. It is full of homely detail: the French nuns' first encounter with corn bread; Mother Duchesne's purchase of a slave, Rachel, from her bishop "as a favor" when he left for France, later reselling her to help pay for a dormitory...