Word: fragmentism
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...ashore. It is a minor work, containing nothing as powerful as the portrait of Don Fabrizio, the autocratic old Leopard. But the fine spaciousness of mind is there in the book's three sections: a memoir of the author's childhood homes, a short story and a fragment of a novel...
Aristocratically, he refused to read translations. Finally, near the end of his life, he began to write. The fragment of a novel included in the present book carries the theme of The Leopard-the ruin of the noble traditions-into the 20th century...
...finest thing in the world," he answered. A fragment from Dick Merriwell's Colors, or All for the Blue, (circa 1909), unearthed by Richard Bissell...
...FRAGMENT OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY (116 pp.)-John Gunther-Harper...
When it comes to running things, Goer-gen seems taller. The son of a small can dy shop proprietor, Goergen started out as an accountant, and in the aftermath of World War II was named director of a small fragment of the prewar Thyssen steel empire. Within ten years he had built it into Germany's second largest steel company - only to be booted out with $600,000 in severance pay when aris tocratic Frau Amelie Thyssen, the com pany's largest stockholder, decided that the brash Goergen was not her dish...