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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solution : a marriage in which fidelity is observed neither for love, money nor hope of inner reward but "by virtue of the absurd," that is, by virtue alone of having taken oath to it. Right or raving, De Rougemont's reasoning is often ingenious, always arresting, fascinating in detail...
...National Guardsmen patrolled the area with fixed bayonets. An Army patrol boat stood watch a stone's throw out in the St. Lawrence River. And Hawk-eyed, lanky Ed Starling, chief of the White House secret service detail, soon had the Presidential special hauled out of the ingrown Ogdensburg Yards-the day before he had spotted two huge gasoline storage tanks between the train and the river. It was pulled to a safe, secluded, heavily guarded siding at Heuvelton, N. Y., where there were neither tanks nor moving railway traffic...
...perhaps 50 of the 453 pages devoted to it-a prettily sentimental, rather chokingly over-literary, long short story. But of course it is by no means all. The first six chapters, which are perhaps the most inactive and certainly the talkiest in contemporary literature, set up in great detail, with blank and awful irony, the effects of genius upon certain individuals-a secretary of Goethe, young Arthur Schopenhauer's hysterical bluestocking sister, Goethe's tortured, psychically castrated, piteous son-and its equally unpleasant effects upon a whole household and community. The exquisite, shriveling protocols of the formal...
...young "character" actor playing an old man. Between these strict archaic boundaries he constructs a complexity of invention, scholarly research, literary criticism, topical satire, prophecy, pure poetry. In every refraction, like the turnings of light within the depths of an iceberg, is recorded more of the nature, substance, detail of that bitterly remote, contemptuous, inhumanly self-pleased, almost divine prescience which is the essence of genius as Goethe had it-or as Thomas Mann observes and believes in it. Mann has here set down more on his subject than anyone has ever set down before...
...southern Dobruja. This week Bulgaria's Minister to Moscow Ivan Stamenoff flew home, occasioning suspicions that Russia was disturbed - presumably because Bulgaria was submitting to Axis pressure and not demanding the whole of Dobruja and therefore a common frontier with Russia. Bulgarians and Rumanians worked meantime on details of their Axis-sponsored agreement. One detail on which the Bulgarians were reported to have been softhearted: they agreed that the shrine where the heart of Queen Marie reposes should be surrounded by a little plot of land which would still, and forever, be Rumania...