Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Political Confusion. Where is recovery coming from? From politics? European politics has become just one vast area of frustration. The tory parties are finished, though it is characteristic of individual tories that some of them haven't yet found that out. The traditional social democratic parties are old and tired and timid. . . . Everywhere in Europe, the Communists are the party with what driving power there is. They at least seem to know what they're trying to do. They act like men who really believe in their offer of salvation...
...years the world would remember-perhaps with honor, perhaps with shame -the final scene. The empty dock with its bare wooden benches had looked vast and strange. An almost intimate solemnity, unbroken even by the mundane presence of photographers, had pervaded the packed courtroom. The brittle silence had given way to the firm, clear voice of Lord Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence (pronouncing eleven times: ". . . death by hanging") and to the noise of a paneled door, eleven times closing behind a condemned man. The occasion had lifted the eleven men from past bravado and past cowardice alike...
...seats for February. For, whether the play was good or bad, theatergoers knew that the return of Eugene O'Neill was a .major event in the theater. Then, as the lights went faint, the buzz of excitement dissolved into silence. In the dimness, like the opening of a vast mouth, the curtain rose...
Book-seeking students who enter the University Law Book Exchange and make their way along its narrow aisles, ever mindful of an always imminent cascade of volumes from the vast piles which tower through the length of the store, are absolutely certain to make the acquaintance of Abraham Isenstadt, the proprietor of the establishment. Mr. Isenstadt, no shrinking violet in any of his thirty-nine years, first dabbled seriously at bookselling while attending Boston University and the BU Law School. After graduating from the latter and being admitted to the Massachusetts bar, he elected not to practice law but instead...
...Stark's character. This criticism is beside the point. The novel in no-wise constitutes an apologia for Long or for the South and to say that it does is to ignore the meta-physical side of Warren's thought. For despite the novel's immersion in a vast welter of detail about Southern life, "All The King's men" is fundamentally a parable of Evil...