Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from my dear old home you come, And all its glories you can name; Oh tell me-has the winter plum Yet blossomed o'er the window frame...
...Britain this winter, Winston Churchill led 21 thoughtful fellow countrymen* in a manifesto. "If Europe is to survive, it must unite," they declared. "Since for the moment governments find it difficult to take the initiative ... let men of good will in all countries take counsel together that Europe may arise...
...Winter before last, Gardon had struck coal while digging in his field. Since fuel was short, he had taken the coal from the backyard. Sadly Gardon looked at the seven-foot hole in the ground. Said he: "C'est fini. I've been nationalized...
...vocation-while trying to integrate himself in the community of men (the village at the foot of the Castle)-who do not want him. K., a land surveyor, believes that he has been ordered to take a job at the Castle. But when he arrives, at night, in winter, he is rudely ordered off the premises. The Castle authorities (a vast, apparently shiftless bureaucracy) first deny that K. has a job there at all, then grudgingly concede that he may have one. K. tries desperately to reach the Castle by telephone. "The receiver gave out a buzz of a kind...
Religious Humorist. The mood in which Kafka energizes his perception of the incompatibility of God and man is unequivocal, masculine and as glitteringly clear as winter air. He is the least sentimental or feminine of modern writers. But truth and derangement are galley-mates, since the horror that tugs at the same oar is the perception that man and his fate by human standards are monstrous. Kafka retains his sanity by his realization that man's fate is also divine comedy. This is the hinge of his unearthly irony...