… in 1921 during the post-war period of deflation pale into comparative insignificance. The root of the recent trouble … on at Gastonia by the National Textile Workers Union, a Communist group which is outlawed by the American Federation … later at Marion they were no more welcome than the radicals had been at Gastonia. At both places the strikes …
… of Emerson. By Van Wyck Brooks. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company. $3.00. “THE Life of Emerson,” by Van Wyck … but at the end, one longs for clash, for drama, for acrid comment on the principal character, for something solid and … the gracious and powerful traditions of New England, it is also true that James had behind him the gracious and …
… the wife using a cane, the husband apparently in some discomfort. Quite simply, they were very old; to most the wife, … you’d waited for an ambulance to get there, he might have died; he may have suffered a slight stroke. We’ll know the … the doctor told her, “I’d pin it on your chest.” “Medals,” she said, and laughed again in a new way. “My son used …
… Shaw has shifted the terms of debate on one of the most studied topics in American history, and that is no … in 17thcentury painting.) Withal, however, Stafford disappoints. Her prolix style obscures the story she tries to … the self to its social and historical environment. 7-26 …
… spine split by gold-leaf, swears he hopes he’d want to die. Never (your hand at the dropped stitch of his pulse), …
Criticism
… flaws and characteristics, and are wonderful.” Lubow pinpoints a European vacation in 1951–52 as the moment when … husband until a few years later, and she was never able to completely escape her photographer-for-hire role, including … primarily on powdered Junket straight from the box, and the diet of sugar added fuel to his manic rage,” Lubow tells us. …