Word: unexpectedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The mind of Santayana is restless and far-traveled; the flow of his thought is never the steady controlled intensity that he admires in the ancients, but glints with unexpected intellectual play over the current-like foam above the rapids of a river. After the long years when the very...
For what cinemaddicts saw in Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Greer Garson, was something old and cherished in their hearts, but new and unexpected on the screen-the Ideal (if overidealized) Woman. Not a full-bosomed, cottontailed babe, a chromium goddess, an uncrowned martyr or a vampire bat, but a woman...
A few days before, two New York labor reporters had asked John L. Lewis the most unexpected question of the year: Would he support F.D.R. for re-election in 1944? The dead-pan answer, indirectly quoted by the N.Y. Post's young labor columnist Victor Riesel: "It all depended...
"In the Cherkassy direction our troops . . . together with guerrillas . . . struck an unexpected blow. . . . In October several guerrilla detachments in the Tarnopol region blew up 33 enemy troop trains, two armored trains and a railway bridge. . . . At the beginning of November the Germans sent out a large punitive expedition against one...
The Walsh Girls has been more highly praised than almost any first novel since Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel and Tess Slesinger's The Unpossessed. It deserves most of the good words given it. It suffers from the same bleak self-minimization that wounds the characters in...