Word: impressible
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week Serafimov's violent adventures and mystical strivings, together with the equally searing experiences of his six companions, formed the substance of an imaginative, intense volume that won the eighth Harper Prize Novel competition ($7,500), seemed likely to impress readers as the most unusual selection thus far.* The work of Frederic Prokosch, 28-year-old author of The Asiatics (1935) and The Assassins (1936), The Seven Who Fled is distinguished by its sensuous imagery, queer plot and elusive symbolism, as well as by a tantalizing, ambiguous philosophical message which will leave most readers wondering if they have...
...Japanese Diet, his son, Fumitaka Konoye, captain of the goll team at Princeton where he is a junior, sat in the press gallery as a reporter for the Domei News Agency. His report: ' It may be impolite to say so, but father's speech failed to impress me. I expected more of him especially since his speech was polished by the "Cabinet. When I observed his hesitant manner, I became nervous...
...Germany could get access to these for their rearmament program, their entire investment in the Spanish war might be justified and the galling defeat at Brihuega might be forgotten. If the Basques could stem the drive against their capital it would be a victory over Fascism that should impress the whole world...
...both in equipment and personnel. It would require new laboratory space, and an as yet non-existent staff, but would offer considerable advantages to the student. First, repetition would be avoided. Secondly, practical experience with various techniques, though not of long enough duration to produce proficiency, would serve to impress on concentrators in each field the existence and utility of the techniques of the other, in two full-course rather than five...
...Waldo Frank returned from Europe to rediscover the U. S. He found it "a hostile waste." Manhattan's skyline failed to impress him: like John Ruskin viewing the exterior of King's College Chapel ("an old sow lying on its back") the sight depressed him. reminded him of "an old comb lacking half its teeth." Manhattanites struck him as "uncomfortable, nervous, harassed, brutal, sullen, dehumanized." The U. S. method of solving social problems roused his scorn: "Folks get drunk on alcohol? Easy: abolish alcohol. . . . Dour dramas corrupted Sweet Sixteen? Easy: censor the drama. Crazy communists upset bedtime story...