Word: sands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knotted and salt-rimed stump, broken love to the tattoo of sympathetic rains and a pathological religions mania to the cresendo of a venegeful thunderstorm, delight the eye and, chaotically enough, provoke the emotions but the relation of these things to a masterful novel is less than that of sand to granite. Not only should, in this case the parts or particles cohere more closely but there might well be other elements sifted in. One fails to find in Saltacres either character or situation satisfyingly delineated; and it is insufficient solace to turn to the desolate animation worn...
...dumb and stupid world plants its weary feet upon the slippery and blood-soaked sand where men like John Brown died. . . . America ought to be glad to build a monument to John Brown and ashamed to let the Negroes take the lead. He was one of America's great...
...house in Valdemosa he lived with George Sand. She wrote: "It is poetry, it is solitude, it is everything that is most enchanting under the sky; and what sky! what country! We are in a dream of happiness." Chopin wrote: "The three most celebrated doctors of the island came together for a consultation. One sniffed . . . another tapped . . . the third listened while I expectorated. They treated me like an animal, and the first said I would die, the second said I was about to die, the third said I was already dead. But I go on living as I have always...
There is small need for alarm Mexico still swarms with dark virile men who love nothing better than mixtures of blood and sand. But, alas, bulls come dear in this era--and seats for the slaughter must rise accordingly. The cinema is cheaper. Therefore the Mexican morale breaks down to the extent of deserting the bull fights for the inexpensive but amusing movies. The national hero is transformed from the person of the most efficient bull artist to that of the reigning screen star, be it man, woman, child or horse. For those who dance must pay the piper, quoth...
...imagination, and outlined a Sacred Book. Then he was the Pericles of Provincetown, creating the creative mood in others by his prodigious vitality, sympathies, humor, dreams. He remade his own house with ax, saw and chisel (building in an elevator when his wife's heart ailed) ; made beach sand yield greens; painted, modeled, wrote; created a new national theatre. On the wall of his house he made a fresco showing the evolution of Living Church out of Theatre...