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...where she wondered about the transmutation of the Holy Mass. But a penitent pilgrimage to Rome, she knew, would restore her faith and rebuy the future. And Werfel's ironic answer to why Europe has fallen is symbolized in the climax of that pilgrimage, a journey portrayed with a Chaucerian flair for the details which make characters seem real. He shows the Austrians of every class; the nouveau-riche, the poor, the priest, and the salesman--all like Teta seeking blind assurance of happiness beyond life and ignoring the hell on earth. The Pope, himself wracked by physical pain, like...

Author: By E. G., | Title: BOOKSHELF | 1/14/1941 | See Source »

...Washington's Birthday to honor the capitalist Father of His Country. Bland and self-possessed, Red Lin produced a scroll which he said was from the brush of Red Mao-as likely a story as though it should be claimed that Comrade Browder had written a speech in Chaucerian English or Attic Greek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Homage By Reds | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...situation is not primarily the fault of those in charge of the course; but is due rather to a confusion of motives and needs resulting from the mingling of graduates and undergraduates. The Chaucerian philology and grammar and scholarship which is necessary to the graduate kills the beginner's pleasure in the poetry. One of the best means of fulfilling the requirement of the English Department for one course in Pre-Shakespearian literature is a year of Chaucer. There are already graduate courses in the field, for example, English 4 (Middle English: Language and Literature from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH 1 | 2/6/1934 | See Source »

...darkish, slow northerner" meted out justice to an affected and bellied person called Alured Castorley. They had worked together at a Fictional Supply Syndicate until Castorley inherited some money and withdrew from hack work to follow "Literature." Chaucer was his prey; soon all the world recognized Castorley as a Chaucerian authority. Manallace remained a hack. During the War they were thrown together again. Castorley said something about the woman Manallace loved, which inspired in Manallace a smoldering anger. Years later, when Castorley had become so prominent as an author on "our Dan" that the slightest jiggle might pitch him into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Twilighter | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

...shock of Peter's death awakens the ulcer in Fergus' stomach, its starfish of pain begins to spread. He takes some drink to ease it, dies dreaming of dead friends and the sea. The Author. Englishman Leonard Alfred George Strong's first literary effort was a Chaucerian ballad about a sow named, after his grandmother, Amelia. This attracted his family's attention, but it was not until after he met up with Aldous Huxley, Robert Graves. Richard Hughes and Edmund Blunden at Oxford that his literary talent became widely recognized. A sometime theatrical cartoonist, ballad singer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brotherly Hate | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

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