Word: maxime
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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DECADENCE-Maxim Gorky-McBride ($2.50). Freely translated, the pen-name, "Gorki," means "bitter."* But in this study of Russian babbitts, Author Gorky is no Sinclair Lewis. He is impassive and even pitying toward those stupid, acquisitive bipeds-serfs before 1861, small-town industrialists thereafter-whose tendency to "make another America" out of Russia was retarded by 20th Century revolutions. This lengthy history of the Artamonov family, father and sons, rising with their big linen factory to as much power as they can control, then losing it all, is not satire or invective. It is honest, impersonal realism, thoughtful though morose...
DECADENCE-Maxim Gorky-Mc-Bride ($2.50). His first novel since the 'War; peasant plutocrats...
Here's your check for subscription. After having paid you the money, I feel that I may make one complaint. "All the news" is your maxim. Eugene V. Debs died a while ago and so far as I could find, your paper made not one single mention of him. Wasn't the courage of this man during his lifetime, no matter what you may have thought of his views, a sufficient justification for at least a passing reference to him? Or is TIME'S measure of greatness financial rather than moral...
Since these remarks flatly contradict the maxim of Mussolini: "'Nothing outside the State! Nothing against the State!" the Vatican news organ, Osservatore Romano, sought next day to soften the Pope's rebuke to Mussolini. The editor ingeniously declared that President Coolidge and Premier Mussolini both "are agreed on the principle of the pre-eminence of spiritual things." From Mr. Coolidge was quoted: "Religion is necessary"; but the nearest similar remark which could be quoted from Mussolini was of very different purport: "Youth must be brave, honest and upright...
...influence is no less intelligible. ... He has, what few men in public life have, and what no one in the present Government has in anything like the same measure, a constant philosophy of affairs and an undeviating aim. . . . 'Damn the consequences' and forge straight ahead is his maxim, and he has learned that by the impetus and driving power of conviction it is possible to ram any gospel down the throats of colleagues who have none...