Word: stream
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...times he traveled over roads that were cut through beds of coal, with great chunks of shining anthracite used for fence rocks. Sometimes his path was a rushing muddy stream, over whose slippery rocks he had to pick his way. This precarious route, he found, was the lifeline of Chinese Armies. He passed numberless coolies, struggling and crawling with animal patience through the mountain gaps, overloaded with blankets, clothes, grenades, machine guns, rifles, cartridges, medical supplies, telephone wire; braying mules, struggling under dismantled bits of artillery; sick soldiers straggling from the front; stretchers jogged over the painful ways; beggars keening...
...hall entrance with two others, but we could not make headway against the stream of persons pouring out. Before us, filling the hall, was a yellow-grey wall of dust and smoke. . . . Several wounded faltered through the door. I broke through and . . . the way into the hall was now free. I had to adjust my eyes to the dimness. Then I saw what had happened...
PROFESSOR TINDALL, in this witty and searching book on the outstanding primitivist of our time, has been concerned with two fundamental points: Lawrence viewed as in the stream of post-Victorian intellectual revolt against Christianity, evolution and scientists in general; and secondly, Lawrence taken as a symbol of the frustrated romanticism which Professor Tindall finds to be the true essence of our age. He accompanies Lawrence on his spiritual peregrinations into the wilds of theosophy, and for the first time offers a complete investigation of the novelist's reading...
Perhaps "Hollywood Cavalcade," as its title implies, is meant to tell the evolution of the movie industry from a puny stream to a raging torrent. But as the film works out, it tells of a rollicking freshet that grew into a sprawling, limpid river. To apostles of "progress" in the movie industry, this picture is indeed discouraging, for as it progresses from its first sequences of riotous cinematic primitivism it steadily loses audience interest...
...investigating this copious stream of propaganda coming in by the back door, it is only natural to question the motives of the speakers. Those inclined to a leftist point of view will have the answer pat. Manning is the leader of an upperclass church, the Episcopalians being the cream of the wealthy fashionables of New York, and so he inevitably bespeaks their strong Anglophile sentiments. They will see in the college presidents the tools of their gold-plated corporations, serving to present the demands of unbridled-capitalism in the best light. Maybe this view cannot be dismissed in every case...