Word: brooding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letters, Gide was perhaps more influential and controversial as a kind of culture hero of his time. His cult of untrammeled self-expression spawned flocks of disciples who had little self to express and even less talent for expressing it. What Gide possessed that the illegitimate cultural brood of his hobohemian descendants lacks was self-discipline and a demanding conscience for being honest with himself. It is this combination that makes So Be It's pages as unmistakably individual as a speech by Hamlet...
...legacy from Father Abraham. Charlie Halleck inherited his energy and ambition from his mother, Lura ("Birdie") Halleck, a remarkable woman who taught herself to type legal abstracts, ran Abraham's law office, drove the family's National, managed an eleven-room house, and raised a brood of five children...
...Though often obstinate, he is invariably polite, and when older men say something nauseous, he answers "Yes, sir" in a mildly disapproving tone. When women quarrel, he never understands that they are quarreling about him. The girls are pure Marquand, too. always prattling merrily about nothing while the men brood, and when noble-souled John says something portentous to them, they respond with irrelevancies-"You need a haircut...
Mary Graydon's mother conveys all the wit and essential fatigue of this intelligently vague woman who could only manage to be Christian in one direction at a time. Her brood--the handsome Humphrey (Joel Crothers) and the over-eager Nicholas (Paul Ronder)--are more than adequately rakish and frenetically inept, respectively; and to say this family gathering seems unusual would be extreme understatement...
...result, 499 collectives were formed in 1958-but in the same year 470 were dissolved. Typical example: five farmers near Warsaw announced that they intended to form a cooperative farm. The government lent them funds to buy pigs and offered land to raise them on. Starting with eight brood sows in February, the farmers sold the fattened litters in October, made a handsome profit, paid back the government loan, gave back the land, dissolved the collective and went back to private farming. Polish officials wryly call such operations "milk" collectives-collectives that milk the government...