Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shaken by these glimpses of evil and cruel accident, the boy returns to his mother's household, to the routine of duty that it demands, grows more austere and reserved, plays football, gets a broken leg making a touchdown for Williams in a victory over Harvard. His father's suicide puts him in touch with a cousin, Mario Van de Weyer, who represents still another problem for the young moralist to solve. Educated in Europe, Mario is sophisticated, reckless, experienced in love, enjoys flattery, presents, bright clothing, admires Oliver's integrity without wishing to imitate him. When...
...come over the question of whether The Last Puritan deserves to be reckoned with great U. S. fiction, whether it should even be considered a novel at all. Challenging comparison with The Scarlet Letter in its theme, it is obviously pale, frail, overintellectualized beside Hawthorne's masterpiece. Evil for Hawthorne's puritans was intense, powerful, a demon to be fought. For Santayana's characters it is distant, abstract, a moral problem to be solved like geometry. Thus the characters in The Last Puritan are real as symbols of Santayana's philosophy rather than as people...
...Chinese are masters of the art of living. It's as much their religion as their belief in the dualistic animism of the universe. Man is made up of two souls: "Yang" a "good soul"; "Vin" the soul of darkness and evil. No harm comes to a good man; that's the way the universe is constituted. With this belief and the worship for the dead the Chinese manage to live a life tranquil and indifferent to the "ways of the world". Strength of character more than strength of mind; knowledge is important as it affects the character...
...mark at Philadelphia Orchestra concerts, was supposed to be a Countess Geschwitz, as bewitched by Lulu as were the many men who loved her. The whole story seemed revolting in its episodic outline. But Berg's music was not to be discounted. Murky, rumbly drums actually suggested an evil, brooding power. The entire orchestra chattered over one gruesome death, grew lyrical when the composer wanted sympathy for his heroine, reached an awful climax when Lulu was slain. Austria's Alban Berg is one of the few real modernists who has been able to write effective theatre music, subduing...
Miss Hall, as Ann, will make her fourth appearance for the Club. Two years ago she was in "Ever the Twain" and last year appeared in "La Machine Infernale" and "Comedy of Good and Evil...