Word: descent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the bottomless well of Joseph and His Brothers. Readers to whom Thomas Mann is only a newspaper name may well take fright at the book s forbidding brink. For Author Mann's latest excursion toward the boundaries of the human spirit is in an uncharted direction, a descent into the past which is no easy tumble into a fanciful Avernus but a painful, foot-by-foot groping for handholds...
...Descent into Hell is the subtitle of his Prelude. In 54 close-packed pages Author Mann justifies his caption, presents the prehistorical theory on which his narrative is founded. "Very deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless?" Not truth but mystery lies at the bottom of the well. Recorded history goes down only a little way. "Where then do they lie in time, the beginnings of human civilization? How old is it? . . . We have only to enquire, to conjure up a whole vista of time-coulisses opening out infinitely, as in mockery." But there...
...mostly an agricultural country. The Letts are an amiable, broad-faced people. Russian for more than 100 years, the country was dominated for 700 years before that by German barons, holding the Lettish peasants as serfs. Today the upper classes and "best people" are still mostly of German descent...
Winding up a season's gruelling practice upon their secret practice field behind their palatial Plympton Street Clubhouse and training quarters, the CRIMSON Varsity nine yesterday announced itself ready for the annual descent to the minors to play ball with their funny rivals down street, who for want of another name have take upon themselves the title of Lampoon...
...Happy Days Are Here Again" and William Woodwin's "The Franklin D. Roosevelt March," to see the smiling faces of 200 eager Representatives and 30 Senators. Hale and bronzed, he came out on the rear platform of his car to the gangway which had been placed for his descent, and grinned at his unruly legislative children. Representative Kenney of New Jersey (sponsor of the bill for a billion dollar lottery for veterans) lifted his arms and led the lawmakers in a cheer. Then heartily enjoying the irony of the meeting, the President made as informal an extempore speech...