Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...would not say that I have forgotten England. But those papers, especially that TIME, have some sort of something. It gives me a delicious sense of freedom to read them-in fact, it gives me wings...
...likable sort and he had a kind of brash courage. He had challenged Taft when better-known and more prudent men had declined to take the chance. And in some respects, he was not altogether to be sneezed at. He had held the auditor's office for 14 years; in 1948, when Harry Truman was winning Ohio by a scant 7,107 votes, Joe Ferguson won re-election by 291,887-the biggest majority a Democrat ever got in the state...
Steinbeck has chosen for this theme the sort of treatment that must succeed splendidly or not at all. In an effort to universalize his characters, he has made them successively circus folk, farmers, seafarers. To exalt them further, he has made them as full of mysticism as philosophers, as lavish with metaphor as poets...
When Sheldon Glueck decided to marry Eleanor Touroff, he also decided that it would be nice if they could have a joint career. So he asked his elder brother Bernard, a psychiatrist, what sort of career it should be. Said Bernard: since Sheldon was a lawyer and Eleanor a trained social worker, the two should be very happy working together in criminology...
...cruelly humiliated by the vicious Paolo and, at the end, drops him for another beautiful youth who has attracted her by making obscene gestures. Along the sordid route of this story, Williams offers such gems of wisdom as, ". . . beauty was a world of its own whose anarchy had a sort of godly license," and such gems of prose as, "Because you are very young, said Mrs. Stone, and very foolish and very beautiful. And because I am not so very young any more and not so beautiful, but beginning to be very wise...