Word: transient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these the long poems are by far the best--in fact head and shoulders above the many sonnets telling of a doubting love, or the lyrics with their transient themes and shifting thought. For the poem "Ann Garner" really does show the "promise" attributed to Agee by Messrs. Benet and MacLeish. In it is a genuine and deep feeling for the story the poet is telling--the story of a lonely woman whose only child was dead at birth. Drawing on his own experience in the Cumberland Mountains, Agee makes a living thing of the feel of the earth...
...governed by popular opinion. But the compensatory method of control requires that the state shall act almost continually in opposition to the will of the majority. Such a system is as incompatible with our popular democracy as is communism or socialism, but it is the only assurance that the transient majority will not injure the permanent interests of the nation...
...kitchen of an old lodging house at Lynchburg, Va. one morning last week. The sputtering grease caught fire, sent a blaze up to the ceiling. Rasch hurried the night watchman to a room containing fire extinguishers but it was locked. Overhead 100 sleeping men, wards of the Federal Transient Relief Bureau, leaped out of bed, ran for the windows. No fire escapes. They rushed to the back of the building. A wall of flame. Some jumped in terror from upper windows. Others swung in their underwear from ice-covered telephone wires. In the smouldering ashes firemen found 14 charred bodies...
...been abolished in the latter state and that schoolboys were throwing spitballs at Almighty God delighted this iconoclast. But it is the religion of love as symbolized and poetized in Christian dogma that brings him to conversion. Religion supplied the necessary ideal meaning of his earthly and therefore transient love. The similar position that the philosophic poet and man of letters, George Santayana, has taken in the past ten years may clarify what this miracle play is trying to express. Santayana has returned to the catholic form of Christianity because he feels the necessity for an ideal, as well...
...affair and its supposed or transient value in the security markets." Andrew Carnegie, whose name was to become almost synonymous with libraries, once asked his friend, Publisher Frank Doubleday, how much he had made last month. When Doubleday replied that he never knew how he stood until the year's end, Carnegie said firmly, "I'd get out of it!" Greatest of U. S. industrialists, thinks Josephson, was John D. Rockefeller, who believes "the power to make money is a gift of God." As a young man he used to talk to himself at night about his schemes...