Word: labyrinth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ivar Kreuger, 52, matchmaker and moneylender to many nations, arrived in Paris last week. His pallid face was whiter than usual, and drawn. He had just been in the U. S., seeking loans for his labyrinth of companies. He had failed to get the loans. He did not look forward to a meeting he had called for Saturday noon to discuss his companies' financial position with their leading executives and certain international bankers. When on Friday his doctor told him he was in poor shape and should watch his heart he became very depressed. Saturday morning he arose, dressed, wrote...
...Tsarist regime. This is done with a skill which would make the book worth reading if nothing further were said. Next, the Bolsheviks are followed through their various vicissitudes with outlines of how these troubles were handled. Fortunately, the writer never allows himself to become enmeshed in the labyrinth of Soviet political structure but only considers the various commissions which wield the real power. For this reason his exposition is unusually lucid even if rudimentary...
...would doubtless be difficult to defend every aspect of the library from either a practical or an aesthetic point of view. But in attacking the artificiality in the building, the author of the "Nation" article becomes involved himself in a labyrinth of purely artificial distinctions. It certainly is only a diseased sort of academic mind which could object violently to inclusions in the same structure of rooms in Gothic, Renaissance, and Colonial styles per se. Certain juxtapositions could be aesthetically bad. But it is absurd to suppose that decorations of the fifteenth and the seventeenth centuries are necessarily inharmonious...