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...Beginnings," murmured the Venetian, "there have been so many. But nothing ever comes from over there-but trouble and appeals for money."-Willa Gather, Death Comes for the Archbishop...
...Over there" (U.S. Catholicism) is now-93 years after the scene Willa Cather has portrayed-a chief Financial support of the Vatican...
...almost as if True Confessions had been caught running installments of a Willa Cather novel: Since daytime radio serials, supposedly adored by "the U.S. housewife," are by common consent the most fatuous of dramas, the discovery of a soap opera that dared to be literate made radio columnists pop-eared...
...feeling of estrangement from the life at home, approaches the bitter dissection of college life in Wolfe's "Look Homeward, Angel"-though Miss Carrick's approach lacks his sweeping inclusiveness and turgid power. Her polished style and delicate portrayal temperament are more in the urbane manner of Willa Cather. Only the concluding chapter betrays a novice hand. The threads of the plot, unsnarled but not firmly and finally knotted, dangle rather loosely...
SAPPHIRA AND THE SLAVE GIRL-Willa Gather-Knopf...