 | Henry Steele Commager - History - 1950 - 504 pages
...confessed himself embarrassed, "by the words sacred, glorious, sacrifice, and the expression in vain . . . There were many words that you could not stand to...and finally only the names of places had dignity." Hemingway, Dos Passos, and Wolfe had all emerged in the twenties as Fitzgerald's Sad Young Men, as... | |
 | F. Leavis - English literature - 1968 - 342 pages
...sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it ... There were many words that you could not stand to...and finally only the names of places had dignity; but to admit fear of them is to admit belief in their existence, and it is the essence of the code... | |
 | Carl Darryl Malmgren - Fiction - 1985 - 248 pages
...the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done to the meat except bury it. There were many words that you could not stand to...and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all... | |
 | Bruce Morrissette - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 214 pages
...sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing were done with the meat except to bury it. There were many words that you could not stand to...and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all... | |
 | Daniel Weiss - English literature - 1985 - 300 pages
...sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression, in vain. . . . There were many words that you could stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. . . . Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names... | |
 | Günther Blaicher - American literature - 1987 - 386 pages
...sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it. There were many words that you could not stand to...and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all... | |
 | Scott Donaldson - Literary Collections - 1990 - 156 pages
...sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it. There were many words that you could not stand to...and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all... | |
 | Astradur Eysteinsson, Ástráður Eysteinsson - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 278 pages
...for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred and the things that were glorious had no glory. . . . There were many words that you could not stand to...and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and cer63. James loyce, Finnegans Wake (New York: Viking Press, 1959),... | |
 | Murray Krieger - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 306 pages
...sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it. There were many words that you could not stand to...and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all... | |
 | William E. Leuchtenburg - Business & Economics - 2010 - 333 pages
...sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it. There were many words that you could not stand to...and finally only the names of places had dignity. In repudiating the shibboleths of the day, the intellectuals revolted against the assumptions of progressive... | |
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There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. 
