Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week, Clara Gabrilowitsch, who has already published an undistinguished biography of her illustrious father,* publishes an intimate biography of her famous husband. † Anecdotal, chatty, her book, naturally uncritical, tells more about Mr. & Mrs. Gabrilowitsch than it does about Gabrilowitsch the musician. An ardent Christian Scientist (although her father was noted for his early attacks on Christian Science), Clara Gabrilowitsch interprets the events of her husband's life piously, describes how she several times brought him through crises of body and mind by the power of faith...
More conventional in his choice of genius, John Cowper Powys finds no difficulty in swallowing Nietzsche, Milton, Poe, Dickens, Proust, all at one gulp. Of all literary "appreciations" his are the most fulsome, the most ardent, the most consciously designed to engulf readers with a vicarious sense of cosmic genius. And hence Powys' book is the more likely to be read, since, like Durant's Story of Philosophy, it enables readers to enjoy the classics without reading them...
...Flattens Everything!" An ardent Leftist, Professor Haldane says that "a British Labor or Popular Front Government" might have ordered taken long ago the precautions he now recommends. He ignores the fact that Moscow has not taken them, that the French Popular Front, after studying the reports of its many-agents in Spain, adopted the same "evacuation strategy" as British Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare. Apart from his plunge into politics and recriminations, Scientist Haldane gives many objective, personal accounts of his sensations under bombing in Spain...
...novels (O Genteel Lady!, Paradise, etc.) have been full of romantic literary tricks. In spite of this they have been eminently successful in drawing a persuasive picture of colonial New England. Descended from pioneer Massachusetts stock, saturated from childhood with tales of colonial history told by her parents, both ardent historians, Author Forbes has a liking for portraying warm-blooded New England women whose passions clashed with Puritan convention...
Died. Jean Longuet, 62, grandson of Karl Marx, friend and literary collaborator of Léon Blum, ardent pacifist, founder of the Socialist newspaper Le Populaire; of injuries received in an automobile accident; in Paris...