Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Words of concern appeared in the Vatican's Osservatore Romano: "[May the belligerents] reflect seriously upon the moral consequences of deliberate destruction of Pisan monuments...
...allegory of the fall and resurrection of mankind." (Tim Finnegan was originally the hero of an Irish vaudeville song who falls off a ladder and is thought to be dead until a friend splashes whiskey over him at the funeral wake.) The four parts of Joyce's novel reflect Italian Philosopher Giovanni Battista Vice's theory that history eternally passes and repasses through four phases: theocratic, aristocratic, democratic, chaotic. Finnegans Wake suggests that life has again reached the stage of chaos and is awaiting a divine thunderclap that will bring the world to its senses and start...
This volume includes 336 letters written by Woollcott between 1897 and 1943 (the year of his death). Most of them reflect only the genial, humorous, enthusiastic side of the man whom the N.Y. Herald Tribune once called "the final arbiter of things literary in the United States." "He wrote angry, cutting, and sometimes cruel letters," say Editors Kaufman & Hennessey, "[but] none of them is included . . . for the reason that they were withheld by their recipients." But this collection of Woollcott's letters is jampacked with anecdotes about Woollcott's distinguished friends & enemies, touching stories couched in the Little...
...Letters reflect the brimming Woollcott emotions. "I just cried quietly," he wrote to Noel Coward after seeing the Lamb of God's movie, In Which We Serve. "Courage is the only thing that makes me cry." After previewing Goodbye, Mr. Chips, he burst into "a great, astonishing sob" and fell down the projection-room stairs. "One of the characters in Of Mice and Men," he wrote to Harpo Marx, "is an amiable and gigantic idiot. . . . I tried to get [Heywood] Broun to take this part and he was very hurt." "Just a big dreamer," said Harpo of Woollcott, "with...
...spirit of the show is well summed up in Kirstein's catalogue introduction: "The best American battle paintings have been modest. They are filled with the quiet, well observed reporting of the conscientious correspondent, whose notebooks reflect the words of Walt Whitman's great inscription-I was the man, I suffered, I was there...