Word: decays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Where wealth accumulates and men decay...
...river, so that he can run a mill. But Holmengraa has not been "King Tobias" for nothing. Enterprise flourishes where he establishes himself. Presently he has acquired the whole river and a mortgage on the whole estate. Like Buddenbrooks (see the adjacent column), it is a study of the decay of the old order. Its style is more sophisticated than that of the German novel. Shorter and dealing with fewer characters, it is more dramatic. But it is less great and less comprehending. Of the two books, it is the lesser...
...easy to sum up Platonism in a paragraph," he stated, "but I think we may say that it is the determination to look beyond the things of sense in this perplexing world of change, of becoming, and of decay, with the conviction that behind it all there are abiding realities of youth, beauty, and goodness which the soul may grasp when it realizes its heavenly origin. It is the soul which is alive, not the body. It lives in the world of the ideas. These are more potent than acts. As Marcus Aurelius puts it, The universe is change...
...room school is rapidly disappearing. Citizens in every State of the Union have been aware of the change. They have seen the little white (or, by tradition, red) buildings at the cross-roads falling into decay; they have seen larger brick buildings replacing them at central points; and they have met buses on the hard roads conveying pupils from considerable distances to the new seats of instruction. But few have known that it was a nation-wide affair, few have known that it had a long history behind...
...HOUSE OF ALARD- Sheila Kaye-Smith-Dutton ($2.00). Here is another lengthy, careful study of the decay of an English county family by the author of Joanna Godden. The Alards were land-poor and stubborn with pride-they could afford to keep two cars for the sake of their position but they could not afford the most necessary repairs on their farms. As a matter of economic fact they cumbered the ground, and the slow pressure of economic facts at last destroyed them. A thorough, complete dissection of an acute problem in present-day England-well worth reading...