Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dumfounded when he saw a whole garden of roses, he wept bitterly. But a fox taught him wisdom and the nature of love, formulating a Saint-Exupery belief: "Tame me," the fox begged. "To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world. . . . You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose." The little prince returned...
...After 17 years in the front-line trenches of Chicago politics, the First World War . . seemed almost tame." He returned to the America of President Wilson ("that damned Presbyterian hypocrite" was how T.R. described him to Ickes), soon to be come the America of Harding ("nominee of those turbulent, grasping, selfish...
...Emigdio, San Gennaro and Santa Barbara are the saints whose job it is to tame earthquakes. Perhaps they were caught napping. Or perhaps too few prayers had recently reached their ears. Last week in southern Peru a subterranean mutter grew into a growl. For almost three minutes the earth juggled the ancient town of Nazca, while houses crumbled. The nearby village of Palpa was flattened, as if by an iron, and a deathly ague shook Ica, toppling the steeple of the Church of Our Lord of Luren in a foam of dust. In Lima, 250 miles to the north, thousands...
...story of cold, glittery Amanda, an ambitious historical novelist, and Julian, the cold, glittery millionaire publisher whom she lures to a marriage bed with no more than "her usual annoyance at the damage to her permanent." It is also the story of ever-maudlin Ken, a kind of tame Venus's-flytrap, whom Amanda keeps around less for biological than for decorative reasons. Ken might have gone on being a tame cat indefinitely but for a quiet little country mouse named Vicky ("I like furniture and houses all warm and used and kind"), who gobbled him up when Amanda...
...were all, The Seed Beneath the Snow would be an ordinary piece of democratic propaganda. But it has indestructible meaning and grandeur, because Silone dramatizes, chiefly within one village, the conflict of two irreconcilable worlds. One is the world of Caesar: petty officials, petty sycophants, sentimental housewives, craven husbands, tame-cat priests, small landowners who "would boil the Sacred Ribs of Jesus in the tears of Our Lady of Sorrows if they could make a broth of them"-in short, the dull, timid, heartless, ambitious mass of whom, in Silone's opinion, life is chiefly made. The other...