Word: shops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sign hanging in front of the Grolier Book Shop is faded--dingy, by some people's standards--and you have to climb five steps to enter the store. For that matter, there aren't any bargain sales, used book tradeins, or neat stacks marked with course titles; most students hunting for textbooks leave the store on Plympton Street in a matter of seconds...
...head and a typesetter's box, which Smith inherited when he took over another artist's studio, cast separately in bronze and then welded together. Agricola IX is one of a series Smith has done using bits of discarded farm implements, including parts from an abandoned buggy shop. For Smith, this work, which includes a pedal from a spring wagon, becomes as much a part of the landscape as trees or leaves...
...issue on which Knowland chose to hit hardest was labor policy. Goodie Knight has announced that he would refuse to sign any right-to-work bill in deference to California's large and politically powerful labor forces, who mortally hate and fear the prospect of the open shop. Last week Knowland not only called for "a just and equitable right-to-work law" but went a strong step farther. Said he: "The time may soon be coming when Congress may have to apply the same antitrust laws to the big unions as it does to corporations." Thus Bill Knowland...
...best poetry, and again appears in this book, in which Eliot shows that he is like other men. too, in his predilection for shoptalk. In these pieces, which range in time from 1926 to the present and in subject matter from Virgil to Kipling, the poet-critic is talking shop about the poet's trade. But, Eliot being Eliot, there is also an underlying concern with the larger meaning...
...long life, the pride and pretense that made Angel unbearable in success make her magnificent in failure. Her outrageous behavior is somehow transmuted into tenderness. Ill and dying, she has a moment of believing that she is a child again, back in her mother's tiny grocery shop near the brewery, with factory sirens about to shred the morning air, and all of life lying before her. But then "the panic lifted. Angel was overwhelmed with relief. She realized that it was not to be gone through again; after all, she was at home, in her own bed, with...