Word: ares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When unfriendly Indians are egged on by British Tories to burn Lana's cabin, her baby dies at birth. Homeless Gil and Lana go to work for plainspoken, horse-faced Widow McKlennar (Edna May Oliver). There is another Indian raid, and, just as the women and children are being...
For more than a century the study of ancient Greece has been thinning out in Europe and the U. S., becoming a luxury or a slightly silly passion, a rare specialty with scholars, a cliché or nothing to the people at large. Greek is hard to learn (though not...
In The Life of Greece, therefore, Will Durant bears the burden of proof. His subject is one which fed and instructed the best minds of several robust centuries (16th, 17th, 18th) and stimulated the liberal revolutionaries who founded the U. S. and French republics. Durant does not capitalize on that...
Durant's erudite wife says their house in Great Neck, L. I., is a "factory." The great popularizer planned to work five years on The Life of Greece, cut it to four-and-a-half to get the book out before election year. First draft was written in what...
The last half of her book is devoted to the Civil War, which she prefers to describe as a fascist invasion. Though she keeps her account simple and personal, she gives an abundance of the war's history, of which, as head of the Foreign Press Bureau, she is...