Word: seek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lone worker," preaches Novelist Laxness, "will never escape. . . . The life of the lone worker, the life of the independent man, is in its nature a flight from other men, who seek to kill him. From one night-lodging into another even worse. ... Such is the story of the most independent man in the country...
Weighed down by international depression and their own heavy thinking, Chronicler Romains' characters literally escape into passion. Some seek normal love, others prefer perversion. Result (in the English translation): to make his novel safe for U.S. family readers, Romains says he has felt obliged to make "completely brutal excisions." The deletions are certain to stimulate readers' imaginations. Example: "If you like, I'll sit at the piano (three words deleted...
...stick has been whittled away no less than the carrot. . . . The more comprehensive the protection and the higher the benefits [under social security], the less, quite inevitably, is the urge to stay in employment or to seek it when it is lost. . . . There are already signs that the admirable principle of full employment is likely to be translated in practice into fixed employment, the doctrine that nobody must ever be thrown out of work...
Almost the only men playing old-style jazz outside New Orleans today are the aging old masters who came from there. In Los Angeles, jazz purists flock to hear the great tailgate trombonist, 56-year-old Edward ("Kid") Ory. New Yorkers until recently could seek out 66-year-old Trumpeter Willie ("Bunk") Johnson, playing in a Lower East Side ballroom...
Over a prolonged weekend, the Crimson baseball squad, now under the tutelage of Adolph W. Samborski, will seek to close its season auspiciously in games against Boston University, which it has already beaten, on Saturday, and Yale, at whose hands it has tasted defeat, on Monday. Both games will be played on the rivals' fields...