Word: spells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Very Earth reads as if it were written by a man under a deep spell, as if Caldwell himself were aware that something was the matter, and simply did not know what to do about it. Its prose has the glassy, elaborately monotonous decor of the language of hypnosis, beneath which the reader can sense the hysteria of someone trying to re-establish communication with the world. In what is obviously a rigorous act of will rather than the product of a freely flowing imagination, Caldwell puts his characters through his standard novelistic paces without once indicating what motivating...
...training; their top officers have often been kept on the job for political reasons. Even after the guard was called to federal service in 1940, it took nearly two years to get some units ready for combat. Next time, warned the Gray board, there might be no such breathing spell...
...unforgettable, even when he struck out. His swing whirled him around until his slender legs were twisted beneath him. And the times when his big bat did connect were baseball's biggest moments. The spell lasted until the Babe had trotted around the base paths, taking mincing steps on his small feet, tipping his cap to the mighty, reverent roar from the stands...
...teachers have long been natives trained by Seventh-Day Adventist missionaries and hired at $20 to $40 a year. British inspectors who had seen them at work found that few of them had ever read a book outside school, knew little about teaching a course, could barely spell themselves. The islanders were fast forgetting their English, and were slipping into a droning dialect all their...
...went well the first two days; then Manhattan had a hot spell and practically nobody came. The union got nervous about its musicians' pay, and on the fourth day, just as Benny Goodman was going on to tootle a clarinet version of Debussy's Rhapsody for Saxophone and Orchestra, the union called its men off the job. Dorati, who had sat up half the night studying Debussy's score on a plane from Chicago (he had flown out the night before to conduct in Chicago's Grant Park), took the bad news with a good nature...