Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sinclair the most engrossing of all the phenomena of human behavior are those of growth. She writes about children as they get older, watches their instincts and emotions stiffen in the mold, closely observes tendencies hardening into characters. In another book, Arnold Waterlow, she riveted her attention to the slow shaping of a single personality. Now she brings six children into the world of her mind...
...stories, of which there are many in both prose and veree--Hiawatha's Bowling, Joe Slow, the Boy Inventor. The Little Girl and the Kind Ogre, Jack the Giant Spiller, How Brother Rabbit Cleared the Yard, Archibald and the Surly Dragon, The Naughty Boy and the Vengeful Peauut--are all neat little yarns in themselves, and at the same time sly parodies of the plots, characters, and narrative manner of fairy tales...
...centuries the very slow progress of morality through processes of natural evolution has proved a constant reproach to the more virtuous and earnest members of the human race. Law, persecution, and reform have all been tried as experiments for forcing people, to measure up to the proper moral standards, but have alike proved failures in the attempt at wholesale elevation of human morality...
...Nebraska was an open prairie. For 430 miles from east to west long undulating plains stretched out like the level wheat lands of Russia. Slow-flowing, muddy rivers ran through the plains; villages were few and far apart, travel difficult. Nebraska was a state before there were people there; in 1860 the land where Lincoln, the capital, now stands was open plain. The first settlers found a continuous, nearly flat plateau, covered with long red, shaggy grass. Buffaloes ran the plains, wallowed in hardened out water holes. The winters were hard and short, the summers hot and long. In this...
...closed), will be trained and given an outlet. ... I do not aim at impressiveness in the buildings or equipment. All must be secondary to the quality of instruction dispensed. ... It will not be done in a hurry. Such ideals as I have in mind are necessarily matters of slow growth...