Word: godse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Excavation of cubistic-faced gods was not all little Baron Max was up to during his half-century in the Near East. He was also pioneering the Berlin-to-Bagdad Railroad, and serving as the Kaiser's confidential intelligence agent. One of the world's greatest authorities on...
To understand how these three men have dominated our thinking, says Author Barzun, try to imagine our speech without terms like survival of the fittest, struggle for existence, natural selection, exploitation of labor, dialectic materialism, scientific socialism, social significance, Nordic culture, music drama, leitmotiv, the twilight of the gods.
What gave these men such a powerful hold upon all subsequent thought? Says Author Barzun: they "made final the separation between man and his soul." "Man was no longer a cherished creature of the gods. . . . Things were the only reality-indestructible matter in motion." Result of this apotheosis of matter...
To Dr. Zimmer, Mann owed more than his plot. From his Maya, a translation (into German) of a gigantic compendium of Hindu mythology, Mann took detail, background, much, very likely, of his philo-symbological machinery. It is Dr. Zimmer too who best summed up this novel: "It is as if...
Between dances the Freshmen will be entertained by the mystical prophecies of Seeress Godel, whose strange Tibetan accent has been developed from her frequent seances with the ancient gods of the old East. Her accomplice gods of the old East. Her accomplice and equally-talented philosopher of the mystical sciences...