Word: treaded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...need, in A Passage To India, one of the century's most sensitive and provocative novels. Last week Novelist Forster, who has never written a novel since, found himself the subject of an unexpected revival. Two of his earlier novels (Howards End and Where Angels Fear To Tread) were reissued by Alfred A. Knopf. Two others (A Room With A View and The Longest Journey) were reissued by New Directions. Novelist Forster and his work were analyzed by Columbia University's Lionel Trilling in the first important For ter study in English...
...This indifference to the commonplaces of liberal thought makes the very texture of Forster's novels. . . ." The theme of Forster's first novel, Where Angels Fear To Tread, is the "violent opposition between British respectability and a kind of pagan and masculine integration" in the character of Gino Carella. "For the poor, lost, respectable British people, Gino may serve as the embodiment of the masculine and pagan principle, but Forster knows that he is also coarse, dull, vain, pretentious, facilely polite and very much taken with the charms of respectability...
During the first full day ashore, the 1st landed all of its regiments. By morning it had some 40 artillery pieces and 15 antitank guns in position to fire. It had three tanks, but one had lost a tread in the sand. These weapons were not enough for what was to come. Only the bravery of the men and the fire of the warships offshore saved Gela and the landing...
Curtain Raiser. At the very least, it will take the financial collaboration of the British Commonwealth and the U.S., on terms that can include others, to bridge the gap between immediate relief and long-term investment and to set the stage on which long-term investment can safely tread. This is the object of the tentative proposals of a group of British experts headed by Lord Keynes (TIME, April 5) and of somewhat similar proposals by a U.S. Treasury committee headed by Under Secretary Dr. Harry D. White (TIME, April 19). These proposals are in turn the subject of several...
Harvard, it is fitting that this should be. I have no longer the single eye, the courage, to tread your walks. You belong to this new generation as surely as you belonged to me. You are theirs by the right of service, the same right by which you were mine. In serving them you serve me, and there is no other...