Word: elysium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dirt. One thing wrong with Americans, in Lewis' view, is that most of them fail to realize what a magnificent future they are building. Tied to petty, European standards of measurement, Americans keep thinking that they are a great nation, instead of "an advance copy" of the "rootless Elysium" that is to come. They worry because their cities are "irresponsible, dirty, corrupt," when in Lewis' opinion such conditions are "like nature," and therefore highly admirable. Americans even suspect their gregarious habits and glad-handedness, when, as Lewis sees it, they should be reveling in their "beautiful human impulse...
...Reinhardt in Berlin. They gave the production two notable Reinhardt touches. After Eurydice's funeral, the mountain wall which towers up behind the stage came alive with song; a chorus of 65 demons had been strung along its side. In the following scene, in which Orpheus arrives in Elysium, the theater's canvas roof was rolled back, revealing a starlit summer...
Passed By. Not until the depression was under way did most expatriates realize that their principal support in the elysium of Montparnasse was the moneyed America from which they had fled. The homeward trek began...
...Congo needs a first-class harbor at its mouth and locks around its falls and rapids. Once really opened, this dark Elysium can pay in low-cost vegetable oils, in copper, in minerals and fibers yet unprospected...