Word: fabricius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perhaps for this purpose that Hitler replaced his scholarly ambassador in Bucharest, Dr. Wilhelm Fabricius, with a brash terrorist, Baron Manfred von Killinger, whose record is one of the bloodiest in Nazidom's unsavory history. Active since 1920 as a plotter, gunman, Putschist and purger, he served briefly as Consul General in San Francisco, scored impressive success in reducing Slovakia to submission. As Gauleiter of Rumania, the Baron could be expected to exhibit those arts of discipline for which he is notorious...
...work is an "ailing overgrowth of superabundant sensibility"; he was "guilty of the heresy of expressive form: the belief . . . that life best expresses itself in art by duplicating its own confusion in the transferred form of the spectator's emotion." Products of the run of generally read novelists-Fabricius, Feuchtwanger, Cronin, Stribling, Lewis-are briefly dismissed, not for lack of interest or use, but "because they show little material for literary criticism to fasten...