Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were captured while trying to join De Gaulle; two were sentenced to death, ten to forced labor for life. Now printed only in English, Free World plans editions in Chinese, French, Spanish. Editorial board and contributors read like an anti-Fascist Who's Who: Cordell Hull, Nicholas Murray Butler, Dorothy Thompson, Clarence Streit, Eduard Benes, T. V. Soong, Mme. Chiang Kaishek. Its editor is Carlo a Prato, onetime secretary to Count Carlo Sforza when he was Italy's Foreign Affairs Minister (1920-21), for 20 years Geneva correspondent for the New York Times...
...Mass.; Joseph J. Koss, Chicago, Ill.; James J. Murphy, Dublin, Calif.; Robert W. Painter, Salt Lake City, Ut.; Jesse L. Perry Jr., Nashville, Tenn.; Robert C. Rice, Mount Airy, Md., John L. Robins, Canton, N. Y.; Edward M. Rollins, Bristol, Tenn.; Albert E. Selenkow, Baltimore, Md.; Donald A. Starr, Butler, Pa.; Maurice A. Tenenbaum, Louisville, Ky.; Donald P. Watkins, Detroit, Mich.; and William G. Wright, Winnetka...
...hero, Slave Trader Matthew Flood, is built like a souped-up Abraham Lincoln and is as tough, lascivious and predatory as Rhett Butler. Its heroine, Pallas Burmester, is an Abolitionist and a sort of vanguard feminist, but she is also a woman of spirit and of adequate sex appeal. The settings-Bristol, the African Gold Coast, Cuba, Spain, of the late 18th Century-exude that wasted "authenticity" of the Hollywood superproduction. Added attractions: informative data about the slave trade, some warm stuff about a Negro concubine, vignettes of convent and plantation life, a storm at sea, litigations over an estate...
...symbol of the best and worst meanings of the word genius. He was a lap dog for cultivated ladies, loveless as a serpent, soaked to the soul in the most indecent self-pity. He was also ruthlessly loyal to the fact of his genius as a poet. Professor Butler looks at him with a level, sane, exacting eye. The result is the first biography and critique of Rilke to be worthy of its subtle, over-culted subject, "the greatest German poet since Hòlderlin...
...spent the rest of his life. He disliked the country intensely, regarded it as "a waiting room plastered with Swiss views." But in the 13th-Century Muzot Castle, he delivered his final elegies: those tremendous, all but murderous mysteries of mind, swarming with "exciting, dangerous, forbidding" angels, which Mrs. Butler calls "the strangest perhaps of all the strange poems our century has produced." Rilke is one of the most difficult of poets to translate; but this passage on angels will faintly suggest both his quality and the violence of the Muzot experience...