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Compliments and thanks for "Fever Chart" and "Appointment in Samara" in TIME, Oct. 27. They are the tops. Written as though from a mountaintop where we get in one view significance of the past, pathos and confusion of the present, doom in the future unless we wake up with a bang...
...Ideational as the culture which looks beyond the material world for all its values and aspirations; Idealistic a happy medium. Thus the Middle Ages was an ideational period, the scientific and rationalistic 19th century a sensate one. Each period, each type of culture carries within itself its own inherent doom,--its tendency to degeneration which will lead to its fall and to the rise and dominance of one of the other types, which also declines, and so on. Just now we are tobogganing down the decline of the last sensate period, which phenomenon is the crisis...
...pieces and grind the faces of the poor?" For this descendant of many Dutch Calvinist divines is something of a modern Zachariah, a minor social prophet in the line of Tolstoy, Strindberg, Shaw and Ibsen. Pierre van Paassen knows how to number the sins and sound the trump of doom so mellifluously that his first book, Days of Our Years, sold 300,000 copies. Advance sales of That Day Alone last week reached...
...speeches, to let the spell of his eloquence expire), Fisher Ames looked like one of the most promising statesmen in U.S. history. But when Jefferson became President, launched his plans to reform the courts, bought Louisiana without bothering with Congress, Fisher Ames became a prophet of doom...
...volleys of firing squads beat like doom in the cities of Europe: 117 shot in Yugoslavia, 32 in Paris, 18 in Poland, five in Berlin, five in Belgium. These were deaths announced by the forces in occupation. How many more died unrecorded, only whispers told...