Word: apocalypticism
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The book begins with Joseph nervously putting last touches on the Wotton Vanborough exhibit. With this scene as its casual centre it launches into a circling recital of upper-crust extravagances and lower-class problems, mixed, its methodical madness suggesting nothing so much as a cross between Evelyn Waugh and...
Opposite his picture of the Virgin grieving over the dead body of Christ, Artist Vanka had composed a group of women in Croatia standing beside a shallow coffin in which lies a dead soldier. They are all in white with white headdresses and the bier is covered with delicate, almost...
TRUMPET OF JUBILEE-Ludwig Lew-isohn-Harper ($2.50). Apocalyptic family chronicle of a German-Jewish family whose experiences range from Hitler concentration camps to the World Wars of 1940-2000, fought successfully to make the world safe for the lower forms of animal life. About equal parts of Zionism, Wellsian...
Another aspect of this fable of many facets is that beauty and comedy and tragedy remain in life, even in the midst of apocalyptic happenings. As the fated people move on past the Urals, the love affair of Raoul Perez, Royalist son of the Paris banker, also moves on to...
When Publisher John Farrar received from Colonel Tweed in London the manuscript for Gabriel Over the White House, he sensed a good thing. Roosevelt was in the thick of his 1932 campaign. The Bonus Army had set a new pattern for direct action at Washington. The U. S. was groaning...