Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately, men with good intentions (like Mr. Roosevelt) are not always wise, and smart men (like some other politicians) are not always good, and so some narrow-minded cranks like myself still cling with great longing to the liberty for which our fathers died, the God-given right to make a fool of ourselves our own way, instead of Roosevelt...
Maurice Hindus' father was a Jewish kulak, engaged with great resignation in liquidating himself while Lenin and the Bolsheviks were still down-at-heels in London. When he died, his widow had to go into the vodka-selling business in competition with the Government monopoly. In 1905 the Hindus family went to the U. S., rented a couple of rooms on the lower East Side of Manhattan. Maurice did not like the smells of the city. At his first chance, he took a job as farmhand in the upstate town of "Mount Brookville." There, on page 120, Green Worlds...
...interesting sample of the latter is . . . and Tell of Time, a 712-page novel based on the post-Civil War background of Author Krey's Texas forbears (the family still owns a plantation in the cotton-growing Brazos Valley of southeastern Texas). Here the tedium of the narrative contrasts particularly with the dramatic events in which the family was involved. The Civil War itself was only slightly more violent than Reconstruction Texas, with its swarms of ruined Confederate soldiers turned loose, its bitter landowners turned Ku Kluxers to fight a black army of occupation...
Literary observers, about equally divided between the alarmed and the content, now acknowledge that the left-wing literary movement during the 30s has gained some able recruits. But even sympathetic observers have been disturbed by the number of left-wing novels which appear, still lumpy with undigested slogans, melodrama, still relying on red flags and broken heads instead of good writing...
...Liberals, first novel by the able author of Revolution-1776, shows far fewer of these faults than some, but still needs a further purge. Author Preston has an attentive eye for present-day intellectuals' dilemmas, an attentive ear for their dialogue, considerable humor. But in pointing a solution, the best he can offer is a broken head...