Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practiced vigorously with managers in the form of nurse-maids judiciously returning the blocks and other impedimenta hurled out of the bed. No sooner is a child able to walk but he has a desire to go faster, and this, strange to say, is the beginning of running, except that the child only wants to get somewhere Jumping over the threshold is a rainy day sport of the three-year-olds, and when at nine one is caught stealing the neighbor's apples one is surprised to find what a clever hurdler or pole-vaulter...
...latitude, south of the equator: Tasmania; the sixth state, is an island south of forty. The whole continent is rather warmer than the United States, approximately one-third of the northern part within the tropics. The climate may be compared with that of California; sunny weather predominates and except in Tasmania and the mountains snow is practically unknown...
...avarice and hatred have been more obvious than usual, a world tired and emasculated, "decadent." Against this he has struggled, like a "Titan," as the jacket puts it. Probably he felt much freer in writing "Mein Weg als Deutcher und Jude." This propagandizing and sociologizing mars all his work except the "World's Illusion," for in the three years to come the critical stage will no longer be the same critical stage...
Ancient, exotic Africa works changes on all the travelers except Mme. Momoro. She has been there before. Ogle feels himself shrinking into a bitter, puny ineffectual as he drives with her over multicolored mountains and desert in the wake of the barbarian Tinker, whose progress, strewn with coin and prodigious solecisms, looms more arid more like that of a conquering potentate, a latter-day Hamilcar, a boisterous Caesar of a new Rome. His is an army of dollars; his retinue at home is 6,000 slaves. He scoffs at the native backwardness, ladens his wife with curios, silks, jewelry brought...
...experience that is meant to be beautiful if not religious? hearing voices in the jungle, tearing his shirt off, having an ecstasy ?but it only comes out confusing and a bit absurd. Back again from the jungle, Clifford is himself again and everyone is happy; except, of course, Lena. The book confuses not only the mind but the emotions too, mixing so much to condemn with much to admire. The characters are presented in subjective flashes, bright, sensitive but jumbled; a psychological kaleidoscope. Speaking all their half-thoughts out loud, and many more of the author's, the mother...