Word: sot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the forest wilderness, where the elk drinks from the secret brooks and from ageless marshes the bittern boom, comes Uvadiev, with Favorov an engineer and Suzanne a chemist, to oversee the building of a great paper-pulp factory at Makarikha on the river Sot. Lost, they put up over night at the secret hermitage of Meleti, full of weird monks full of weird ideas. Hostile to Soviet innovations, they expound their general attitude at endless fantastic conversational length?"our Lord has not only chastized this earth with fools, he has afflicted it also with the wise." Wiseman Uvadiev...
...admission to Moscow University in 1922 after demobilization from the Red Army. He then moved to Archangel to be near his father. His first writings were in verse; his first novel, Barsuki (The Badgers) was published in 1925. Other books: Rasskazy (Tales), Golubye Pesky (Blue Sand), Vor (The Thief), Sot (Fodder). In Soviet River the translators have done their somewhat bumpy level best to transcribe Author Leonov's highly poetic but naturalistic style...
...know them i tetter they grow to life size-not to heroic or tragic or grotesque proportions. Because Author Davis tries to tell what ,ldous Huxley calls the Whole Truth About his people there is no hero in his hook, no villain. Uncle Lincoln is a rhetorical sot and a nasty old man when drunk: but with his mother he is a different character. His wife Josie. a sinister strong woman, might easily become a heroine in less clever hands than Author Davis'. Theodora is the adventuress of the family, with two firm feet to fall...
...store tycoon. Happy in Kansas City the tycoon and his dependents fall on miserable days when they move to a magnificent home in Manhattan. The tycoon's wife allows herself to be cajoled by a mustachioed gigolo. The son of the family becomes a whiskey-sot. The daughter, painfully snubbed by socialites, falls in love with one who does not snub her (Leslie Howard). A denouement of sorts arrives when the son, overcome by alcoholic despair, commits suicide in an airplane. The tycoon then begins to look after his wife. The daughter, it seems, will...