Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incurable loneliness and anguished uncertainty of an individual torn between the violent ecstasies of love and devotion to work retain a humble simplicity. Introspection leads only as far as instinct will allow it. For example, after Rence Nere (Colette) finds that she is in love again, she writes, "I tremble too much lest I should see rising, through the veil of the rain, a country garden, green and black, silvered by the rising moon which passes the shadow of a young girl dreamily winding her long plait around her wrist, like a caressing snake...
...problem which faced the writers of that industrial period was how to depict problems involved in the rapid transition to industry and yet retain literary standards. As might be expected, in doing the former, the latter suffered. Writers were forced to read their stories to assemblies of workers and writers, for "constructive criticism"; they had to sign time pledges for their books, just as a factory worker did. In writing about this period, the authors were almost always forced to use this Socialist Realism. Socialist Realism, in short, must depict conditions in factories, or farms, but in such...
...varsity rifle team came within two points of its all-time record Thursday to defeat Boston College, 1404 to 1305, and retain its hold on first place in the Southern half of the New England Intercollegiate League...
...three leading sextets Dudley has the best chance to win the championship and retain the crown it won a age. But this season's team is somewhat weaker than the crown-winning one of last season, according to Donald Tavel, Commuter secretary...
...private employer, particularly one largely engaged in supplying manufactured products to the Government, to its armed forces, and to retailers for distribution through hospitals and doctors to the public at large, should not be required by state action through its courts to retain in or restore to employment a person who would not be entitled to state employment and who is known to have dedicated herself to the service of a foreign power . . . The employer had not only the right to protect itself and its customers against the clear and present danger of continuing a Communist Party member...