Word: hearkening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realization that college is no longer doing the job it once did, or might still do under changed conditions. If Harvard is to continue at, or even near, the top of the scholastic heap, it is time to take the cotton of complacency out of the administrative ear, and hearken to proposals such as the one made by the Council...
...HEARKEN UNTO THE VOICE - Franz Werfel- Viking...
...Hearken unto the Voice has many of these qualities. But it also has more mysticism and fewer fights, and in them victory goes to the bigger army. A strange book, only a few hundred pages shorter than Gone With the Wind, it takes place in an instant in time and is probably the longest work ever written about the happenings of a split second...
...because he felt one of his rare epileptic attacks coming on. As he entered the Temple he felt dizzy, leaned on a pillar for support, realized he was fainting and looked at his watch. It was 23 minutes to six. That incident takes place on page 49 of Hearken unto the Voice. On page 775 Reeves is still looking at his watch and the time is still 23 minutes...
Brought out a week before the publication of the last volumes of Thomas Mann's story of Joseph, Hearken unto the Voice resembles it only in its underlying theme. Where Mann's novel is subtle and slow-paced, Werfel's is melodramatic and tempestuous. It may well be more popular than Mann's four-volume masterpiece. With most of its characters black & white sketches, Hearken unto the Voice rises to the heights of great literature only in the passages (which Author Werfel has lifted from the Old Testament) where the prophet thunders his denunciations...