Word: dieses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a personage dies, as did Harvey Washington Wiley last week (age, 85; of heart failure), people tell anecdotes about him showing the kind of man he was. Some Wiley stories:
Cain and Artem (Amkino). This adaptation of one of Maxim Gorky's stories shows the fellowship of three people?a giant, a Jew, a fishmonger's wife?in a miserable town beside a Rus-sian river. Theirs is a fellowship of rejection: the giant does not know what to do...
Unamuno, a great name in Spain, famed throughout Europe, is not so well known in the U. S. Most religious of philosophers, most passionate of professors. Unamuno's earnestness and energy are untypical of Spain, his violent, rebellious liberalism untypical of his academic profession. Unamuno looks at life passionately...
HER PRIVATES WE-Private 19022-Putnam ($2.50). Says Arnold Bennett, booster of books, preferably British: "Her Privates We will be remembered when All Quiet on the Western Front . . . is forgotten." Like the German novel, Her Privates We is a record of personal experiences in the trenches, as the plain soldier...
Happy is the Mohammedan who dies on a pilgrimage to Mecca. His soul ascends with a special sanctity to paradise. On such a soul the sloe-eyed houris lavish sweetest sweetmeats, coyest caresses, deepest delights.