Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ezekiel saw the wheel...
...traveled from the peasant roots of her people. But, as she has traveled, she has taken to new heights the best that Negro Americans are. For the Deep River of her life and theirs runs in the same religious channel. In her life, as in the spiritual, the Big Wheel moves by faith. With a naturalness impossible to most people, she says: "I do a good deal of praying...
...angel shovin' at the chariot wheel...
...jeers from those whose thoughts on the Chinese are eulled from the works of Sax Rohmer or the speeches of Patrick Hurley. But Professor Fairbank has no apparent regrets. "After my second year at Wisconsin," he says dryly, "I realized that I could stay on and become a Big Wheel, or go to Harvard, work hard, and get what I wanted. I'm glad I chose Harvard." He is also glad that he went to Oxford later, on that Rhodes Scholarship. "In the third year they let you travel, and I went to China, as I'd always wanted...
...Clowns are the world's incompetents. They are bound to the wheel of incompetence or they cease to be clowns. Chaplin once, in The Gold Rush, broke the underlying significance of his role and spoiled a great film. He forgot Chariot the outcast to become a millionaire and marry the girl, like any John Gilbert or Ronald Colman. Clowns cannot possibly stoop to such romance. They are, in essence, super realists . . . tragedians in disguise. Their endings are happy for everyone but themselves...