Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foul Weather Friends...
...Labour party is Britain's refuge during stormy weather, and the country is presently basking in sunshine. There is full employment and a minimum number of social injustices demanding correction. The Socialists cannot say of the Conservatives that they need to be dragged "kicking and screaming into the twentieth century," for the Tories have accepted most of their own post-war legislation. Indeed, Labour has been hard pressed for election issues because all the real issues existed within its own party...
Thomas Wolfe! The Weather of his Youth, by Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Louisiana State University Press...
...little Tommy." When Wolfe is discussed, inevitably the conversation turns on the fact that he could manage to scrawl only three giant, illegible words on a page of manuscript, or to the fact that he sent off four orange-crates of novel to his publisher. In Thomas Wolfe: The Weather of his Youth, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., has attempted to approach the author and his works intelligently, and to treat them as something besides a gigantic, but insignificant, oddity...
...writing Thomas Wolfe: The Weather of his Youth, Louis Rubin has made probably the most clear-headed statement of Wolfe's place in American fiction. With reserve and some brilliance, Rubin walks a steady line between the idolaters and the iconoclasts, and from his steady course, Thomas Wolfe's reputation will gain a great deal of stability.Wolfe in Berlin: "You Can't Go Home Again" From the Thomas Wolfe Collection of William B. Linsdom--Houghton Library...