Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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American." In neutral Norway in World War I, Hamsun went into retirement to write his major work, Growth of the Soil, which brought him the 1920 Nobel Prize. He gave away the prize money, refused to be interviewed. Said he "In 100 years I shall be forgotten...
Hobo at Heart. His prize-winning novel was an idealized picture of a frontiersman's struggle with the soil, the state, society and himself. Popular critics called Hamsun a great nature writer, but other novels such as The Woman at the Pump, the story of an emasculated man living in a sexy situation (nine years before Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises), showed that Hamsun's real literary impulse, formed during his years of vagabondage, was a profound reaction to petit bourgeois life. A few years later he embraced Reaction as a political faith. His wife...
...annoyance of Dr. Charles Allen Thomas over the poor land on his farm led to the discovery by Monsanto Chemical Co. of a new soil conditioner...
...from Quebec to Philadelphia actually released more energy than the San Francisco quake of 1906 but did little damage because it centered far below the earth's surface. Professor Wolfe believes the recent tremors have been partially caused by the strain put on the continental shelf by tons of soil, carried down rivers to the Atlantic seaboard from the eroding mountains...
...decades, and talks his flashback findings into a tape recorder. As Jeff's soliloquy unreels on the pages of Author Carl Jonas' novel (a February Book-of-the-Month Club choice), it unwraps not a man but a mummy. For Jeff Selleck has not sprung from the soil of the creative imagination; he has been raised from the dust of the literary graveyard. He is a latter-day George Babbitt a westernized George Apley, a bewildered Willy Loman, stained with the pathos oJ success. Whenever Sinclair Lewis, John Marquand or Arthur Miller fail him, Author Jonas falls back...