Word: fausts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bring a play by John Dos Passos '16 to German audiences, Jessner's career has been associated chiefly with the classics. He directed several of Shakespeare's plays while on the continent, though never "Much Ado About Nothing," and once supervised a six-hour production of Goethe's "Faust...
...would bring-had already brought-one tremendous, if negative, good: the end of the monstrous historical lie embodied in Naziism and its perverted practices. Hitler, if he were still able to wonder what his historical function had been as everything crumbled, might say with Mephistopheles in Goethe's Faust: I am Ein Teil -von jener Kraft, Die stets das Base will und stets das Gute schafft...
...popgun and a water wheel at five; a 16-bug-power motor (operated by June bugs glued to the arms of a tiny windmill) at nine; a "vacuum motor" at twelve; his famed alternating current generator at 25. This came to him while he was reciting Goethe's Faust one day in a Budapest park; he promptly diagrammed it in a dirt path with a twig...
Says Dr. Gumpert: "Old age and senility are no more necessarily related than infancy and rickets." At 79, Michelangelo began to write sonnets; at 73, Galileo published his discoveries on the revolutions of the moon; at 82, Goethe finished Faust; at 88, John Wesley preached every day; at 78, Franklin became U.S. Ambassador to France; after 70, Verdi composed his great Othello and Falstaff; after 70, Cornelius Vanderbilt made more than $100,000,000. "After the critical age between 50 and 60 has been passed," observes Dr. Gumpert, "there often seems to be a new flowering of gifts and talents...
Last week it was calculated that Faust had topped the combined output of E. Phillips Oppenheim, J. S. Fletcher, Edgar Wallace and all those who wrote as Nick Carter. More Faustiana remained: the Saturday Evening Post will shortly begin his romantic serial, After April; scheduled for the August Argosy is a short story, By Their Works. Friends said that Faust was in the middle of a Civil War novel when he sailed to Italy...