Word: inners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours about the Bible, pleaded with him to accept the faith. Joe lashed around in his Bible late into the nights, reading time and again Proverbs 27:12: "A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished." After a year of inner turmoil, Joe slipped away one weekday and drove to the home of a Church of Christ minister in Carthage. "Preacher," said he, "I want you to baptize me." The ceremony was quickly performed...
...Manessier and Tamayo may be early beacons marking the channel into which an enriched modern art will flow. Better than most of their contemporaries they are beginning to resolve the problem the modern artist has set for himself: creating a visual image that not only squares with his inner vision, but also can be projected as a meaningful experience to his public...
...question like "Can you tell me the way to the BMT?" he falls speechless. He solves his dilemma, after a fashion, by writing down his thoughts on pieces of scrap paper; using this technique, he meets a girl, who eventually, and quite predictably, helps him to resolve his inner confliot. On his way to final salvation, Reuben struggles through a series of improbable intrigues, most of them the Runyonesque products of a superstitious bartender...
...sometimes even wonder in my inner heart whether the businessman who sabo tages the competitive system is not a greater enemy of our way of life than the Communists that he cries out against...
Some slightly new notes are found in Mann's writing in the volume. There is a marked shift to the sensual. Krull's delight in candies and women and circuses are far beyond even the despest inner longings of Hans Castorp. The insistent attention to clothes, though possibly dictated by the content are a material-sensual innovation. Humor too is introduced in these confessions. Conscious irony, conscious humiliation of foolish people by a foolish man force chuckles from any reader...