Word: cosmos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Susan was religious. She had a visionary imagination, a lively sense of an egocentric cosmos. Once she was called on to testify at a Sabbath meeting of the Colgate Brethren. She succeeded so well she became a frequent preacher. As her fame spread, her ambition grew. Then she fell in love, married a good workman, but kept on preaching. When her husband was killed in an accident, she even preached at the funeral. Susan and her religion both came a cropper when she met young Clarabut, a penniless wastrel who admired her but would not take her Message seriously. Clarabut...
...most of his fellow poets do not regard as a poet at all. Typical modern U.S. poetry does not sell for a good reason: misnamed "lyric," it is actually introspective, exhibitionist, an effort on the poet's part to escape from intellectual nightmare. Witter Bynner's poetic cosmos is top-heavy with intellect but more objective than most; he does not get hysterical about it. His poems are not great but they are masculine. At 34 he summed up, in The New World, what he thought about Life; at 50 he has written the sequel. Eden Tree...
...will throw light on many puzzling phenomena of the cosmos, and may prove also of great industrial value, particularly in creating a new and virtually unlimited market for steel...
...James Jeans speaking in Sanders Theatre last night presented the physicist's point of view regarding the outcome of the universe. The English scientist has concluded, without the unanimous approval of his fellow physicists, that matter continuously passing into pure radiation will eventually leave the cosmos devoid of substance in its tangible form...
...customs accord. Capitalism, communism, a union between European countries, the general betterment of the world's economic and social conditions,--these are the plots of Geneva's present-day drama, while the actors are a group of men whose international cordiality is perhaps the most unusual factor in the cosmos...