Word: sons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came to this country from Hungary two years ago, after living in Budapost during the war and during the long siege of that city by the Russians. His father is Lajos Zilahy, author of 1943 best seller, "The Dukays." Michael was an only son...
...scorn for the modern Godless civilization. "The Quickening of St. John the Baptist" likens the members of a cloistered order to the unborn Baptist waiting in his mother's womb for the coming of Christ's mother, Mary, with the announcement of the anticipated birth of God, the Son. The speechless Trappists and Carmelites are "sealed in the dark and waiting to be born;" they are the sentinels that the world must post to hear "the first far drums of Christ...
...What happens to China's 450 million infidels when they die?" eight-year-old William McCarthy asked the Campbellite circuit-rider. "Son," answered the preacher, "they all go straight to hell." Then & there Ohio-born William McCarthy decided that there was no God. Last week, at 83, white-haired Atheist McCarthy, still of the same mind, was hard at work fighting religion in the New Jersey superior court...
...Finns, busy in his St. Petersburg workrooms. The imperial court was not Fabergé's only customer: every millionaire in Russia clamored for his wondrous candlesticks and parasol handles. In time he produced enameled pigs for the court of King Chulalongkorn of Siam, Buddhas and bowls for his son, Rama VI, and a gold cigarette case which was presented to England's Queen Mary by the Maharaja of Bikanir. But his most ambitious work was the series of 50-odd surprise Easter eggs which he executed over three decades for Alexander III and Nicholas...
Vittorini partially redeems all this by a quiet ending: Silvestro and his mother mutely discover their buoying devotion to each other. After all, she says shyly, "it makes one happy to talk to one's son, after 15 years . . ." And Silvestro, who has rediscovered compassion, thereby rediscovers man's strength...