Word: remained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to tradition, if they soe their shadows, they beat a hasty retreat to their burrows for six more weeks of winter. If the day is cloudy, however, they allegedly remain above ground, confident of continuing mild weather...
Nearly all the major characters are frustrated neurotics, neither certain of their aims in life nor at home in life: the men are unable to hold their wives, the women to remain faithful to their husbands. When the war puts Neil and Larry in uniform, they find something to believe in for the first time. Afterwards Neil stays in the Army out of cynicism and lack of direction, and Larry, his publishing house completely taken over by Communists, joins him in simple despair. The book ends on Larry's bewildered question: "What are we doing here...
...establishment fronts on a street in the vicinity of the Square. Essentially, easy winter walking depends upon a good neighbor policy of shoveling sidewalks immediately after a snowfall. In chilly New England a quick job in this respect alone can prevent the formation of an icy coating which will remain until the thaw. But the simple civic act of shoveling itself does not come readily. It is a variation on the old theme of everyone talking about the weather but no one doing anything about it even when it's but three feet away...
...injustices remain, however, but they are all possible to remedy. First the poetry room has been made inaccessible to all women. This is a blow not only to Radcliffe undergraduates but to the graduate students and to women visitors, who, for example, might want to hear the records of poets reciting. Here there are no equal but separate facilities provided, and nothing in the material warrants this limitation to Harvard undergraduates. Second, though the Radcliffe library may be stocked will all the requisite books this fact does not insure that the girls are adequately supplied, because our girlish system allows...
Freedom from Jokes. His father was a Roman Catholic who struggled to remain respectable in the midst of deepening poverty-but the Dreisers once had to thank the benevolent mistress of an Evansville sporting house for furnishing them "a comfortable home." When their father was trying to get established in some new town, Dreiser's sisters would suddenly appear with young men of tainted reputation, parading down the streets in flashy finery, with spit curls, rouged cheeks, patent-leather shoes and broad-brimmed hats with ostrich plumes...