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Kafka has also been called a theological writer, a philosophical writer, a Zionist, a Freudian, a bitter social critic, a Kafkaist. Plain readers may brush aside the tags. For them two facts are important: 1) to express the manifold, intangible anguish of life, Kafka told his greatest stories in the condition of dreams (he understood that dreams, despite their infinite fluidity of merging forms, have great narrative economy); 2) as a symbolist (Kafka's long books are called novels chiefly by reason of their length), he found for his two greatest stories, The Trial and The Castle...
Opportunities for striking up acquaintances with all types of people are manifold, according to the tone of the letters which the Committee has been receiving for the last year. The letters tell of heart-breaking tragedy, sincere gratitude, and great hope...
Climaxing six weeks of intensive preparation, the meeting will deal with the manifold obstacles besetting the formation of a world university, and will come forth with its own suggestions for handling the problem. Its report will be published and distributed to members of the United Nations on Monday, April...
...reign of King James I. Last week, no birds froze in flight, no peasant girls were pulverized. But Britain and the Continent were gripped by their worst cold wave in decades. Before it finally eased off somewhat this week, it had seriously added to Europe's manifold miseries. Icy blasts from a high pressure area over Scandinavia struck through crumbling walls and patched clothes. Ice creaked in Venice's lagoons, and gondolas carried snowy canopies. Sicilian roads were blocked by snow. In Stockholm, 100,000 people had the flu, including Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf...
...manifold have George Stoll's extracurricular responsibilities become that he has hired two full-time workers to help him and Keller with committee minutes, make phone calls, get speakers. Says he, quietly: "I have always felt that congregations should do more than congregate...