Word: webs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flying Germans again dropped crushing loads of explosive on Birmingham and on Bristol, on Plymouth, and on Manchester, the cotton and textile centre even greater in wealth and prestige than any other British city except London, having a ship canal of its own to bring in imports, a surrounding web of heavy industry, and important rail connections. Next followed two smashing new assaults on Southampton, leveling the big port's business section and hundreds of residences, setting oil stores afire. An Air Ministry communiqué admitted 370 persons had been killed and injured...
...during the last few months, Kingoro Hashimoto has sat still as a spider, spinning a web of revolt with his subtle talk. He brain-trusted Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye in the latter's return to power, and was one of the eagerest agitators for the dissolution of the old political parties...
...manager, who operates in a strictly non-political sphere. He is solely responsible to the city council, whose members are elected by the community at large. Thus the cell of bossism, the ward, is smashed; and all the petty strings pulled by ward politicians are tied into a strong web around the city council. Further, the dictatorship of the 51 per cent is supplanted by a system of proportional representation, under which each party receives a number of representatives proportional to its votes. Thus a maximum of efficiency in the executive and a maximum of democracy in the legislature...
Both novels are about George Webber, a bulky, simian creature with knee-length dangling arms and a Webster-length vocabulary. In The Web and the Rock, George left his home town, Libya Hill, Old Catawba (North Carolina), to become a famous writer in Manhattan. Much of The Web and the Rock was taken up with the fits & starts and impassioned prose of a love affair between would-be Writer George and wealthy, married, Jewish Scene Designer Esther Jack. When love threatened to supersede writing, George fled to Europe. You Can't Go Home Again resumes this unsatisfactory affair after...
Admirers of Thomas Wolfe (their number is legion and their literary tempers are short) may hail You Can't Go Home Again as the culminating Wolfe masterpiece. To others it may seem like rereading The Web and the Rock. There is the same mass and specific gravity of wordage. There is the same tidal flux and reflux of language. There is Wolfe's constant continental sense of the U. S., which sometimes turns into a Whitmanic bill of particulars. There are the same major characters, all from life, and the same unreality surrounding them. There are the same...