Word: bengt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Included in the list of distinguished scholars who will be present are Federal Workshops Supervisor Leonard M. Barker, John M. Brown, noted dramatic critic, and Bengt Edlen, of the University of Upsala, Sweden...
...Bengt Snyder was a tall, serious, good-looking Swedish boy who at 20 decided that it was time for him to take a firm hand in restoring the run-down family estate of Holinge. His widowed mother, Ragnhild, was too gentle and resigned to meet the difficulties of mounting debts and reduced income, the fits of temperament and moodiness in her children. His 30-year-old sister, Marianne, had made a complete wreck of her life. She had studied to be a singer, deliberately botched her first concert to spite her mother and her mother's love...
Conscious of his responsibilities, worried about how to meet them, Bengt stumbled on the program of the Swedish fascists, thought his problems were solved. He accepted their slogan: "The watchword of the time is action." He tried to make himself hard, defiant, intolerant, although inwardly he was uncertain and usually felt sorry for people in trouble. When he speculated about the waste and agony in his mother's life he decided that corrupt liberalism was back of it all. He came to believe that sinister international bankers were responsible for his financial difficulties, that these same bankers were fomenting...
...dozen individual dramas reached their climaxes word came to Holinge that the old owner, de Grévy, was returning to claim his own. And as a last turn of the screw Bengt learned that he was de Grévy's son. The wastrels, thieves, slanderers huddled together on the old farm on a stormy Easter to await the old man's vengeance, found his homecoming different from anything they could have anticipated...