Word: benda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distasteful hypocrisy. Engineering he studied at Paris's College of Bridges & Highways (where he graduated at the head of his class with honors) and at the University of Illinois (Illinois gave him his Civil Engineer de gree) then he hastened to Cracow, Poland, his birthplace, to marry Felicie Benda, childhood friend. As the Columbian Exposition opened in Chicago in 1893, he opened Chicago offices as a consulting engineer. Chicago has been his headquarters ever since. Thence he has traveled to design and build great bridges at Portland, Ore., St. Louis, Que bec, Toledo, Keokuk, Iowa, Celilo, Ore., Cincinnati...
...BENDA is one of those writers who view the present state of the world with-alarm. His mildest predictions of future disaster foresee the disappearance of higher civilization from the face of the earth. His gloomier fore-boding envisage a universal war sufficiently perfect to accomplish the destruction of the human race itself. Having arrived at these conclusions he then sets out to discover the forces which make them inevitable...
...first place we have the new passion of nationalism; a passion even stronger in its potentialities for disaster than that of class or of race. M. Benda's analysis of the nationalism which grew up in the latter half of the nineteenth century and found its highest expression in the World War is keen and comprehensive. But it is not so much with the nationalism of men of action that M. Benda is concerned in his present work as with the nationalism of the intellectuals. Artists, scientists, philosophers, and poets, men of whom a certain degree of universality and detachment...
...While M. Benda's analysis of political passions is admirable and his main thesis is brilliant, many thoughtful readers will not find themselves in agreement with his main philosophical tenets nor will they be inclined to applaud some of his own political prejudices. M. Benda is still searching for eternal verities, abstract justice, and absolute good dissociated from its material embodiment. The modern philosopher who regards all values in a relative light is condemned as a renegade and a disgrace to his high profession. Mr. Benda is finally imbued with a thoroughly anti-Teutonic point of view. Dispassionate modern history...
Married. Herbert ("Zeppo") Marx, 26, youngest of the famed Marx brothers; to Marion Benda,t 23, Follies blonde now playing in the Marxian Cocoanuts...