Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of the ancestors of George Webber. In these chapters Wolfe laid out a brilliant panorama of 19th-Century Southern society, its law, war, murder and myth. Somewhere past midstream in his transition from wild lyric romanticism to humanism, this prose here lost in effusive splendor, but gained in wit, firmness and control...
...house, on a summer afternoon in 1939, a group of upper-class English people watch a village pageant and retire with its ambiguous messages fading on "the sky of the mind." By this time the afternoon is over, Mrs. Woolf has conjured up a heroic image of the whole splendor of English literature and history, from the age when rhododendrons crowded Piccadilly to the moment when, puzzled, uneasy, a little offended, the audience beholds itself torn to pieces among the flashing mirrors of the village players in their finale, called England: Ourselves...
...week in his radio speech to the world. His timing was matchless. He rang all the changes of political oratory. He slipped in sly asides that made listeners guffaw; he made them cry with his exhortation to the fallen nations. Now he lashed Britain's enemies with the splendor of Elizabethan arrogance; now he hissed at them in a way remindful of an old-time dime-novel hero polishing off the villain in the last chapter...
...believe that the present crisis in human history exceeds in magnitude and in spiritual import any that has ever preceded it. ... No words can adequately appraise the splendor of comradeship, courage and self-sacrifice shown by so many of our people. These qualities are found in non-Christians as well as in Christians. They are of God wherever found. . . . Let us so turn to God now that if in His providence victory is ours, we may neither waste nor misuse the terrible responsibility of victory but may turn it to the service of God's laws in the reordering...
...encouragement it has given Japan's hotheads in the Non-Aggression Pact by signing a new $14,000,000 barter agreement (last year's Russo-Japanese trade was less than $2,000,000). Also Puppet Ruler Wang Chingwei of Nanking left for Tokyo to be received in splendor by Emperor Hirohito. His visit was said to be connected with the attempted formation of a "peace bloc" including Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and Nanking which would assure them all of co-prosperity, end Russia's assistance to Free China. It was hoped that the last move would throw...