Word: beste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Weird and gloomy epics-in-celluloid haunt the University Theatre this week-end. Temperamental ballerinas and neurotic Victorians are a strange combination, but it turns out to be one of the best bills that has come to the University in many...
...hrer novels, sport novels, strength-through-joy novels, no conquest-of-unemployment novels, no good race, blood and soil novels, no go jd poetry." Long ago, Hitler told Germans to "think with their blood," but so far "blood-thinking" has produced almost no good books. Hitler himself is the best seller (Mem Kampf with a total sale of over 4,000,000 copies is still tops), yet, despite the 25,000 books a year, the Nazis are continuing to bottle-feed an undersized body of literature that should long ago have outgrown official diapers...
...best book because it is his clearest and most interesting, The Bridegroom Cometh "dramatizes [says Frank] in flesh and blood the loss of the religious instinct in modern American life, and both the need and the promise of its triumphant rebirth." It is really a sequel: all of Frank's writing is focused on the search for a new religion...
...years ago the American Writers' Congress overwhelmingly voted The Big Money best novel of the year. That was on June 6. Three weeks later, Dos Passos' name was mud with the Marxists. His heresy: an article called Farewell to Europe, damning "the intricate and bloody machinery of Kremlin policy" in Spain, thanking heaven that "the Atlantic is a good wide ocean...
...detective stories in the April-May crop, the following stood out as best bets...