Word: problems
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Senators, M. Clamamus had condemned the Hitler-Stalin pact; that saved him his job. But M. le Senateur Cachin, aging Communist organizer and leader, member of the Communist International presidium at Moscow, had created a problem by doing and saying exactly nothing. Onetime professor of literature at Bordeaux, erudite and witty, never one to take to the streets for demonstration, this tired, stoop-shouldered veteran perhaps hoped he could save his job on the basis of past deeds for the Third Republic. At World War I's start M. Cachin, Left-wing Socialist editor of Humanité, rang...
...idea was not brand-new. It had been tried before in the '90s. But the peep-show flickers of those days were often patchy and scratchy, and the machines usually stalled. Fred Mills was satisfied that his company could lick the machine problem with a neat projector and 18-by-24-inch mirror screen. It could show 16 or 35 mm. shorts to the U. S. cinemillions outside the movie houses, if Hollywood could provide the shorts...
...Abenakis pay them no mind. These obliging Indians have been on a bender the night before the raid, are sleeping it off when Rogers' Rangers gleefully fire their huts. In one grand blood bath all the Abenakis are slaughtered. This, however, does not seem to solve the Indian problem. Hunger, fatigue, other Indians, do for Rogers' Rangers what the Abenakis cannot. Only a third of the expedition ever gets back...
...lecture. She redirects him to a rendezvous with her Communist lover. What follows, as baffled and suspicious Bigger is accepted as a comrade, is one of the most devastating accounts yet printed of that tragicomic, Negrophilous bohemianism which passes among Communists as a solution of the Negro Problem...
...murder-mystery suspense, Native Son is no more simply a crime story than was Crime and Punishment. Bigger's murders only pull the trigger of Author Wright's bigger story-the murderous potentialities of the whole U. S. Negro problem...