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...husband; on the need of expansion of production instead of rations, he stood with Leon Henderson and Franklin Roosevelt; on the need of planning the post-war world he came close to the "peace-without-empire" theories of Adolf A. Berle; on the need for cool judgment and sober action, he agreed with everybody...
...patient, simple-minded Wife Willie was always kind to Clorinda, but aging, jealous Wife Bathsheba was never. Abijah himself was a good man, but excessively sober. Because he bitterly resented Clorin-da's power to excite him, he was determined to discipline her. His son Freeborn was about Glory's age. They fell in love, but nothing happened except that they suffered. The birth of her first child eased Clory, but not Freeborn. When he was brought in killed by Indians, Clorinda miscarried her second child. The two deaths subdued and matured...
...these matters. Meanwhile the Conference has been drawing up a list of accredited theological schools, which have academic equipment and standards of decent graduate school level. The attempt to establish such standards has, of course, aroused resentment in those quarters where piety is cultivated at the expense of sober learning. Nevertheless, if a church is to go through the motions of giving its ministry an academic training, there is no hallway house in which it can complacently settle down. Once the principle of a learned profession, as against a lay, unprofessional ministry is conceded, then the standard should...
This week appeared Willa Cather's first novel in five years. It is an immaculately written account of a few months in the life of a family in Virginia. The year is 1856. The family is that of sober, plebeian Henry Colbert and his subtle, suffering, tony wife, Sapphira. They live, well-supplied with slaves, a little beyond the edge of civilization, within the fringes of the mountains. Sapphira's widowed daughter, an abolitionist at heart, does good among the mountaineers and the slaves. Sapphira's husband, another, spends most of his time at the mill, earnestly...
...Sapphira and the Slave Girl bears witness that she can write a dull one. This dullness, though, is the sum of many honest virtues: a nicely formed story, characters drawn with delicate authority, sharp, evocative vignettes of Virginia living & landscape. The whole work has the well-made, healthful, sober clarity of a Dutch interior. And like many unexceptionable people who inspire neither more nor less than respect, Sapphira is not too dull to be pleasant reading...