Word: revoltings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Where the Blue Begins"; and in spite of the assertions of several of our literary friends to the contrary we still maintain it to be a masterpiece--we warned Mr. Morley to beware of too many "odds and ends" books. We sent up storm signals after reading Don Marquis' "Revolt of the Oyster" and F. P. A.'s "Overset". But he has gone right ahead regardless. Now he must weather it through as best he can. Of course we cannot raise much of a tempest, for our spirit has been broken since Heywood Broun pronounced our review of Scott Fitzgerald...
...replaced them with Communists and in so doing made it known to the Government that he had returned from Russia. He and his fellow Communists were then arrested; Serrati for hav-ing issued a manifesto to the Italian proletariat, urging a union between Socialists and Communists for a revolt against the Government...
...York Call, animadverting upon the revolt, says: " One of the most important items of news from Italy is the report that 40,000 Fascisti have resigned en masse from the organization. It is the first break that has occurred since the windbag (Mussolini) marched on Rome and established a moron dictatorship over Italy...
JOHN BROWN. Like Burr, a man of many schemes, most of them failures; unlike Burr, intent on one end?believing that he had a divine mission. Kindly to animals, kindly to his family, but dominating both and willing to sacrifice them for his purpose, he stirred up a revolt apparently not knowing exactly how he was to succeed, and died on the scaffold believing he was serving his cause...
...sultry air before a thunderstorm broods over the book- an air of suppressed, excruciated passion. Not passion in the Titivating Stories sense, there is the passion of the human mind for perfection as well-passion for material things. wealth, a house, even Egyptology- and incessantly the passion of human revolt against the material bonds that hold humanity to the clay. The ending is inconclusive, as in most such struggles-the material characters get their material desires-the less commonplace agonists are liberated after a fashion, in odd ways that do not seem to bring them much of what we commonly...