Word: jacobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Jacob Astor III, pear-shaped prince of the idle rich, drove down a Manhattan street in a brand-new Rolls-Royce, smacked into a jaywalking 17-year-old boy, was hustled off to a police station, where he borrowed two nickels to make phone calls, was freed and cleared after two hours of questioning, left in another brand new Rolls-Royce which he had summoned with one of the borrowed nickels...
...moths, buzzing and beating their wings. Some appeared before Taft's committee; others simply hired a hall. A handful of Democratic malcontents, grandiosely naming themselves the American National Democratic Committee, assembled on the fringe of the Convention, trying for a Byrd Bricker ticket, but died of avoidance. "General" Jacob S. Coxey, sans army, argued for his own free-wheeling fiscal plan. Gerald L. K. Smith, followed by a shrill covey of "We the Mothers," took over the Stevens ballroom while the Chicago Symphony orchestra was tuning up on the stage. Smith so loudly denounced Dewey, Willkie, Roosevelt, Churchill...
Although this volume tells the climax of the story (Joseph's interpretation of Pharaoh's dream of the seven fat and the seven lean kine, his rise to be "Lord over Egypt" and his reunion with his father, Jacob, and his errant brothers), it is so slow-paced and philosophical that it seems static, despite the rapid development of its action. For it lacks the intense excitement of the scenes in which Joseph was cast into the pit, then sold into slavery (Young Joseph), or the intensity of the amorous scenes with Potiphar's wife (Joseph...
Story of a Story of a Story. The Joseph books almost require a second reading. Readers will be likely to enjoy this big book only when they have looked back upon the immense pattern of the story, the array of characters-Joseph himself, his father, Jacob, his brothers, the scribes and stewards of Egypt, the courtly eunuch Potiphar, his sexually frustrated wife, the two dwarfs (in whom Mann personifies the principles of ineffectual goodness and potent evil), Pharaoh, the sermons of the bald-pated Egyptian priests, the astronomy, history, architecture, concepts of life & death-and the similarities and differences...
...well of the past is deep, but, when they have finished the two great characterizations of Joseph the Provider-Old Jacob, and the brilliant, unstable Pharaoh, Amenhotep IV, better known as Ikhnaton, the great liberalizer of Egyptian religion and art, one of the precursors of Christianity, most readers will feel that Mann has made the past's deep waters, at least for a dizzying way down, crystal clear...