Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...COMING FORTH BY DAY OF OSIRIS JONES-Conrad Aiken-Scribner...
...preciosity put you off it. The Coming Forth by Day of Osiris Jones is a brief, impressionistic, fairly comprehensive catalog of a man's life-a man not quite universal enough to be called Everyman, but typical enough to bear the name of Jones. In a note, Author Aiken explains he is indebted for the rest of his title to a translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, in which the deceased is always called "Osiris...
...Author Aiken's method is impressionistic. He makes no attempt to answer such comparatively impertinent questions as: Did his hero ever marry Vivien? What did he do for a living? What caused his death? But in a space seven times as short as an ordinary novel Aiken has compressed the emotional gist of a man's life. His method owes something to James Joyce, father of synthetic catalogs; but Aiken has simplified Joyce's method. His manner is sometimes reminiscent of Thomas Stearns Eliot, godfather of modern sophisticated verse...
...Aiken has emancipated himself from the all-pervading literary allusiveness that makes Eliot such a self-conscious delight to the initiate, such an uninteresting riddle to the plain...
Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania is a member of the Senate Finance Committee. He is considered Secretary Mellon's mouthpiece on Capitol Hill. Senator Reed contended that the income tax is outmoded, that a general tax of ½ of 1% should be applied to all retail sales...