Word: karle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lashing a black; the Boston Massacre with Crispus Attucks in the centre; Thomas Paine and the "Rights of Man"; the Declaration of Independence; Thomas Jefferson; the Whiskey Rebellion; the Annexation of Texas; gold in California; John Brown arming the slaves; John Brown on the gallows; the Ku Klux Klan; Karl Marx-on through riots, strikes, lynchings, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler (with a pansy in his necktie) to a scene of violence and confusion superimposed by a placard: WORKERS UNITE OR THE BLUE EAGLE WILL WEAR A BROWN SHIRT. NRA PAVES THE WAY FOR FASCISM...
...interested in teaching economics; but desires "to weave together the facts." It is a method which the Roman Church has never been afraid to use, in the fact of its own logicians. But his ideas are not all Roman, nor all Christian. Here is a Catholic who quotes Karl Marx for America, who praises Henry Ford, who showers America with a million free copies of his bound speeches. Surely Father Coughlin is a vigorous anomaly...
...panting contemporary historians, including those runners in the ruck who can spare no breath for comment, would do well to mark this book in passing. In 320 pages Author Brunngraber, with painstaking Teutonic methodism, has compressed a significant world-history of the past 51 (1880-1931). An alleged novel, Karl and the 20th Century focuses from time to time on its little hero's helpless struggles to keep his head above the flood; but Author Brunngraber's dogged attempt toall the ground results in a kaleidoscope of fact which sometimes dizzies, sometimes dulls the reader's attention...
Real protagonist of the story is the capitalist system. Its "hero" victim, Karl, bandy-legged legitimized bastard of a Viennese trolley conductor and a servant girl, grows up in his city slum to the slow realization that his father is a drunkard, his mother a drudge, and he himself doomed to serfdom unless he can somehow get himself into the white-collar class. He is almost there when the War swallows him. Vomited out after the armistice as an unemployed veteran, complete with scars and medals, he starves, emigrates to Sweden, goes home to more starvation. Down the long scale...
Sample of Karl and the 20th Century's style, method: "In Switzerland that same evening, at Kiental, where a conference of left-wing socialists was being held, Lenin gave a renewed demonstration of the way in which the imperialist war could be transformed into a class war. In the United States there was being founded the Allied Chemical & Dye Company, a combine of the chemical manufacturers of the Land of the Almighty Dollar. At Philadelphia, Frederick W. Taylor died after being ill for nine days with an attack of pneumonia, on his fifty-ninth birthday, and two hours after...