Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ended his job; after that he eked out a meager existence as a translator. Committed to a Rio charity ward, blind in one eye and partly paralyzed, he said not long ago: "I guess the only news about me that most people want to hear is my death." Last week, at 66, Get-Rich-Quick Ponzi made news for the last time...
Throughout Communism's empire (on which the sun never sets) the faithful commemorated the 25th anniversary of Lenin's death. In Moscow, a smiling Joseph Stalin and other Communist bigwigs sat through ceremonies on the stage of the Bolshoi theater, in front of a color guard that looked strangely like a male chorus line (see cut). In Berlin, meanwhile, the anniversary was marked by an uncommon display of the new Communist sweetness & light-and a prize propaganda boner...
Forty-five minutes later, the U.S. radio came on the air with its own drama commemorating Lenin's death. Again, the Appassionata was played. Again Lenin's words were quoted-but this time in full. In the famous passage (TIME, July 7, 1947), Lenin had gone...
Cole's approach to landscape was typical of his day, which was also the age of William Cullen Bryant and James Fenimore Cooper. Seven years before his death in 1848, Cole explained that "American scenes are not destitute of historical and legendary associations; the great struggle for freedom has sanctified many a spot, and many a mountain stream and rock has its legend, worthy of the poet's pen or painter's pencil . . . And in looking over the uncultivated scene, the mind may travel far into futurity. Where the wolf roams, the plow shall glisten...
Triumph of Kinship. Author Elias, a member of the Cornell English department, got most of the fresh material for his book from Dreiser himself between 1937 and the novelist's death in 1945. Since this was the case, it is disappointing that the book does not go into greater detail on Dreiser's political activities, his adherence to Communism before his death, or into the bumbling and fumbling of the writing of his later years. The deeper loss that his approach involves is the loss of emotion that would give meaning to the facts so carefully presented...