Word: fragments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this anthology Playwright Lillian Hellman, who shared and sheltered many of Hammett's years, has contributed an introduction that pays sentimental homage to his talent. She has also included the fragment of a serious novel, undertaken late in Hammett's life and never published before. There is just enough of it to suggest that the author did his creative spirit a disservice in confining it to literature's underworld...
...Christian thought, older Protestant divines might point to Karl Barth's powerful commentary on The Epistle to the Romans or Paul Tillich's Systematic Theology. Younger ministers, on the other hand, would be far more likely to cite a book that is scarcely more than an elliptical fragment of theology, since it was never intended for publication at all. It is the Letters and Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the now-famed German Lutheran pastor who was arrested and later executed by the Nazis...
Laymen have always been inclined to regard a bullet or a metal fragment in the heart as a sentence of death. And until World War I, most surgeons agreed. Sometimes they could remove the offending object and the patient would live-but the operations were often as deadly as the fragments. Now a 20-year follow-up of World War II injuries shows that, despite all surgery's advances, in many cases it is still better to leave a bullet in the heart...
Twain could be cruelly funny; in one tale a man, caught in a textile machine, gets woven into 39 yards of carpeting. Together with wry homilies ("Temperate temperance is best") Holbrook includes a ghost story, a fragment from Huckleberry Finn, and passages of the purest poetry, such as a description of dawn rising on the Mississippi, a fond remembrance of Twain's youth as a riverboat pilot. It is not youth but age that is the touchstone of Holbrook's marvelously timed acting command of the role. He knows that an old man does not collect his thoughts...
HANG ON SLOOPY (Cadet). At the forefront of this jazzy fragment is Ramsey Lewis' piano, accompanied by the intoxicated squeals of his fans and a bit of distant chanting, "Hang on, Sloopy." Slurpy...