Word: weltered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strachey had less than a day to clear his desk at the Air Ministry, before plunging into the welter of technical problems involved in British Labor's self-proclaimed world leadership against hunger. In a candid, highly' successful press conference, he mended Sir Ben's bad press relations by promising full advance information on food policies. Then he announced importations of a greater variety of foodstuffs, including long missed apples and oranges. Three days after taking office, Strachey made a brilliant speech in the House of Commons. "Famine, like peace, is indivisible . . ." he said. "This nation will...
...much for the surface. Beneath the welter of detail of Hecate County life, beneath the venomous satire, Wilson has contrived a tight little allegory, set up against an inflexibly, moral Puritan standard that is reminiscent of Hawthorne. Although unlike Hawthorne Wilson has kept his story contemporaneous, the forces which compelled both men to allegorize are the same. Cut off from his Puritan heritage by the Romantic amoralism of the Transcendental movement which he distrusted and did not understand, Hawthorne dipped back into the seventeenth century. To Wilson, convinced that Western society is breaking up, appalled by Stalinism, the tensions...
Readers of Delta Wedding are likely to get hopelessly tangled in a welter of entering-and-exiting great-aunts, uncles, fathers, cousins, sons, daughters and defunct ancestors. But what they will get clearly, and often admirably, is Author Welty's subtle blending and harmonizing of the moods and characteristics that make a large, well-knit family sound like an orchestra (sometimes a prison orchestra) going full blast. The aim and essence of Delta Wedding is the recording of this mass effect; it has no plot, no direct narrative, and its few dramatic incidents and occasional solos seem...
London. Overnight he turns its trim interior into a welter of littered papers, damp towels, cast-off clothes, bottles, of hair tonic, a copy of Mein Kampf - chaos as complete as if the Balkans had been dumped in the heart of respectable Kensington. Daily, through this mush, Director Bergmann stamps the floor like a bathrobed Hercules faced with an absurd but unavoidable Labor. He roars genially at nervous Colleague Isherwood: "I am sure we shall be very happy together...
...London's welter of inconsistency came no single important agreement. True, the Potsdam conference had directed the Council of Five only to "continue the necessary preparatory work for the peace settlements." At least, the first session had shown how much "preparatory work" lay ahead. The Big Three had not yet found the way to durable peace...