Word: cabala
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week to a very few earnest people this cabala from the short-wave Voz de Guatemala meant: "War must be prevented. Do not let false reports inflame you. Relations can always be amicably settled. Unless a nation is really bloodthirsty, there is no reason for war. We must not let propaganda flood our brains and stop our reasoning. Stop and think! War is not necessary...
Public response to Author Thornton Wilder has been chequered. His first book (The Cabala) was too clever to be popular. His second (The Bridge of San Luis Rey) was the best-selling phenomenon of 1927. Since then he has published a distinguished tour de force (The Woman of Andros), two collections of inconsiderable, unactable playlets (The Angel That Troubled the Waters, The Long Christmas Dinner). Carpers have accused him of being a literary showoff, say he once struck a lucky posture, will never repeat it. Communist Litterateur Mike Gold started the liveliest row the staid New Republic...
...Wurts, like one of the social dragonesses in The Cabala, famed novel by Thornton Niven Wilder, is a rich, enigmatic fragment in the age-old mosaic of Roman society. Tremendously dim, tremendously "important," she lives in the via dei Funari; the twisted "Street of the Rope Makers," on a floor of the Palazzo Mattei. Two other floors are occupied respectively by Principe Lodovico Mattei, himself, and by fidgety but obsequious Don Guido Antici-Mattei, a relation who is probably poor but, like rich Mrs. Wurts, tremendously dim, tremendously important to the Wurts Cabala...