Word: lended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LARGE PART OF Plumb's advantage comes from the nature of the history he studies. A liberal, an intellectual historian, a biographer of great men, Plumb's interests lend themselves to a more stylish treatment than do the concerns of some Marxist or mathematically inclined historians. Of course, plenty of men with Plumb's interests fail as literary stylists, and it is to Plumb's eternal credit that he writes as well as he does. The liberal essayist is a dying breed, and the essay itself seems to be a declining form, not replaced, certainly, by the new journalism...
...prose. This is lamentable because Hesse's works, many of which lie on the borderline of acceptability, will not get the careful consideration they deserve in the wake of such superficial faddism. The twenty-three Stories of Five Decades (only three of them previously available in English) will certainly lend some more weight to the arguments both for and against Hesse. And assuming that Ralph Manheim's translation is tolerably faithful, these stories might even help clarify some of the underlying problems of Hesse's writing...
...shallow to maintain only that Hesse, in his obsession with "his own consciousness and its place in a timeless reality," remains true to himself from start to finish. There is no denying that Hesse usually weaves an introspective tale and so it's only natural to make this theory lend Hesse's work a positive unity it is otherwise wholly lacking. There are, of course, several negative unifying factors: Ziolkowski ignores most of them...
Died. Guy M. Gillette, 94, former Senator from Iowa and one of President Roosevelt's most troublesome critics during the '30s and '40s; in Cherokee, Iowa. A successful Democrat in a Republican farm state, Gillette opposed Roosevelt's plans to pack the Supreme Court, extend Lend-Lease aid to European Allies and serve for more than two terms. He overcame his reputation as an isolationist by helping to draft the United Nations Charter, but despite his apparent popularity and staunch pro-farmer politics, he was defeated for a fourth Senate term...
Benny's obsession with celebrities and their commonplaces is finally inflated by the author and even charged with a kind of spurious nobility. The question -should Benny sell out?-begins as a joke, a preposterous dilemma. Then Lahr's sympathy for Benny, Lahr's eagerness to lend his characters dignity, beats away the japes, and what began as a joke ends in bloodshed and sadness...