Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frau Koch, widow of a former Buchenwald commandant, is known as the Bitch of Buchenwald. At her trial she was convicted of having prisoners beaten to death, of using their skins as lampshades and other ornaments, and of taking part in the common design of cruelty in the camp. The most damaging testimony was presented by her own defense witnesses...
...Insurance of Death. If he sticks to his purpose, the only new work from Santayana ip what remains of his lifetime may well be the three new chapters he has added to Dialogues in Limbo, a book first published in 1926 and re-issued last week. It is one of the few of his books that Santayana himself now finds pleasure in rereading. On these dialogues, as a philosopher, he is willing to stand or fall: "They are the truest interpretation of my philosophy. If anyone understands them, he understands me." In prose so immaculately manicured that only the polish...
...their civilized exhibitionism, each one's argument largely canceled out by all the others. There can be little doubt that Santayana is speaking for himself as referee when The Stranger says: "A good life seems to me a good, and a bad life an evil; but life and death simply are neither good nor evil in my eyes. Life is an opportunity or occasion for good and evil alike, and death is an insurance against both." If Santayana has a "system," it is hopelessly lost among the flourishes of such adroit naturalistic fencing...
...land and his claim to revenge. To young Kinloch Armstrong this action is simple cowardice. He finds the ultimate proof of the Gerrards' 'original fraud. But then Kinloch, in his turn, is repulsed by the discovery that his own family has been involved in the death of an innocent man. He and his kin have sinned...
...things this young writer can do with the novel form are astonishing. But all too often she writes like a bright student mimicking the best models. She is especially irritating when she adopts the frenzied style of the sort of "woman novelist" who worries her subject and prose to death by merely vibrating portentously when she should be letting her narrative move along. If Elizabeth Spencer, a writer of large and natural talents, can find her own voice, she may develop into an important American novelist...