Word: outland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been haunted always by the Southern highlanders' need of a recorder. Being driven to frenzy by the futility of outland interpretation, I at last took up the work of their defense. To do this it has been necessary to make a long study of their idiom and the dialects from which it is compounded, and to reduce their grammar and syntax to a definite working scheme...
...Driven to frenzy by the futility of outland interpretation I at last took up the work of their defense"-thus Mrs. Chapman on behalf of the Southern Mountaineers; and Outlander Mackaye is no doubt one of those who drove her to it. Certainly two interpretations could not differ more radically-Maristan Chapman's poignant novel of a reticent folk moving slowly to the rhythm of deep passions; and Percy Mackaye's lusty plays of primitive types with quick emotion and prompt voluble speech...
...known Tom Outland...
...third-floor cubicle that had served him for years. He was a tolerant man but a desire was growing upon him to avoid his family, to be alone and do nothing. Their solicitude stifled him. His Jewish son-in-law's florid devotion to the memory of Tom Outland-whom he had never known but whose inventions, willed to Rosamond St. Peter, had made him rich-was an affront to which bt. Peter could say nothing...
...florid son-in-law took Rosamond and the professor's wife abroad; St. Peter escaped the jaunt with difficulty. He edited Outland s diary of the year in the cliff city, wrote a foreword and lay through long thoughtful evenings on his old box couch, covered with Tom's Navajo saddle-blanket. There was a high wind the night he had a cable from his returning wife, blew out the gas in the leaky heater. St. Peter smelled the room filling and wondered if he was obliged to save his life, now that it seemed so completed...