Word: journey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...JOURNEY to the End of the Night," which has been a literary sensation throughout France, is an adventure story of one Bardamn, an impressionable young French doctor. Bardamn is caught in the flood tide of the war and when the evil game of killing is ended, finds himself part of the "lost generation," stranded in the mire of post-war degeneration...
...amount of degradation and muck which M. Destouches' lascivious here continues to encounter. The story shifts to Africa, then to the United States; back to France; then finale in the shadow of a private insane asylum where Bardamn is director. American readers, perhaps, will be disappointed when "The Journey," which begins as if to be a French "All Quiet on the Western Front" develops into a sort of "Candido." Throughout the whole book there persists the same strange humor to lighten the continued examinations of subjects gross and primitive that are usually neglected in print. In many places M. Destouches...
...suspect that one explanation of the French success of the "Journey" is that it lays open the terrible defeatist psychology that has attached itself to the French people, the psychology that acknowledges at one time the hideousness and inevitability of War and which realizes the futility of a French victory as much as it dreads the possibility of a German...
...lack of bail Samuel Insull spent only three of last week's seven days as a prisoner of the People. Those three days were passed in the hospital ward of the Cook County jail where the old man gradually recuperated from the fatigue of his involuntary journey back to Chicago from Istanbul (TIME...
Track squad of thirty-seven men leaves Harvard Square this morning at 8.15 to journey to New Haven...