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...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...
...give frank opinions-of anyone in their fields. There is no reason to believe that men selected by their departments should be especially favorable toward their particular faculty, or that the faculty should choose its delegates with any sinister ulterior motive of gaining undeserved good will. Such conceptions hearken back to grade school days of "teacher's pets" and petty favoritism. The number of instructors in a single department is far too large to cull effectively those students who will most agreeably present their cases. And the liberal number of men consulted by the "Crimson," ranging from ten to fifteen...
...Jones insists on running his elder son and daughter according to the rules of his youthful days. There is the pleading for the use of the family car, the warning to come home before twelve, and the troubles of a son's meager allowance that hearken back to days not far remote for many of us now. After continued rebukes for his nagging by his own old mother, and his 17-year-old son's timely first-aid treatment of a little brother, Pa Jones finally softens up, rewarding the boy with a secondhand car and an ample allowance...