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...reckless bohemian in his early manhood. Hearn had declared his acceptance of paganism as a way of life, and had frequently expressed his distaste for U. S. civilization, for "all that is energetic, swift, rapid ... all competition, rivalry, all striving in the race for success"; had characterized New York as a monstrous "city walled up to the sky and roaring like the sea." Since his death in 1904 the legend has grown that he was a writer whose great natural gifts were frustrated, that his slight and graceful essays are no true indication of his stature. Critics w?ho believe...
Thou who dost shepherd the night winds and makes the clouds His chariot, pass along the horizons of our daily lives. . . . Forbid that we should be lured to drink from the goblets of spiced sin or let fall the wreaths of manhood from our foreheads. . . . Through Christ, Amen...
...look into the future, except with the hope of rousing hatred, animosity and wants that he knows cannot be supplied? "Month after month the Senator from Louisiana has disgusted this body with repeated attacks upon men who are superior to him . . . now it is about time that the manhood in the Senate should assert itself. ... I have spoken earnestly, and I realize that there are those who are listening to me who will say, 'Why pay attention to the ravings of one who anywhere else than in the Senate would be called a madman...
...least 300 years old is the story of the boy who leaves home to make his fortune, returns in manhood to be robbed and murdered by his greedy parents who fail to recognize him. Every few months this item, with setting and characters changed, pops up as gospel fact. Last month the Associated Press carried the story as a news dispatch from Oravisa, Yugoslavia (TIME. Jan. 28). Last week Hearstpapers printed a Universal Service report beginning thus...
Italy. When Perseus, son of Danae and great Zeus, was grown to manhood, the lustful king of Seriphus, who coveted his mother and would be rid of the son, sent him off to bring back the head of the Gorgon Medusa whose glance turned men to stone. With winged sandals given by the Nymphs, the helmet of Hades which made him invisible, and the sword of Hermes, Perseus watched Medusa's reflection in Athena's shield, cut off the head, returned to Seriphus to rescue his mother by exposing the petrifying head to the eyes of the king...