Word: methuselah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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GRANDMOTHER BROWN'S HUNDRED YEARS- Harriet Connor Brown-Little, Brown ($3). As it must to all men and women, as it did even to Methuselah, Death came last January to Grandmother Brown. She was 101 years, nine months old. One of her daughters-in-law wrote this book about her. It won the Atlantic Monthly $5,000 Biography Prize...
...Down, Moses. Not only David's victory over Goliath but other marvelous episodes from Old Testament narrative-Jonah and his voyage in the whale, Methuselah and his ripe old age, Belshazzar and his feast-were ranked by Dr. Gore and his more than 50 collaborators as no more than Hebrew Nights' Entertainments. .They were explained as "products of the Semitic habit of exaggeration...
Adam and Eve, the black and elaborate magic of James Branch Cabell's Something About Eve, should please readers of Shaw's Back to Methuselah. The volume is not without a certain philosophic realism. Anthropomorphic deities grow ponderously chatty over the direction of human destinies. Nonetheless Author Sheehan, after working for years, has produced a novel which treats of gods and men with such tenuous charm that one is almost sure the writer must have drowsed in Paradise...
Supermen. In Back to Methuselah Dramatist George Bernard Shaw predicted that in 30,000 years man would be born from an egg, a postadolescent, with a mind capable of reaching the modern mind's highest development in four years, after which he would graduate into being an "Ancient," a Yogi-like creature with no low passions or appetites, not even the vulgar craving for sleep. To Irénée du Pont, vice chairman of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., 30,000 years seems a long time to wait for creative evolution to reach this...
...Jane Clegg appeared the next year; declared that the "art theatre" had achieved new and notable dimensions in the U. S. when the Guild gave Heartbreak House, Mr. Pirn Passes By and Liliom among other plays of its third season. With He Who Gets Slapped, Ambush, Back to Methuselah, R.U.R., Peer Gynt, The Adding Machine, The Devil's Disciple, Fata Morgana and still others the Guild continued its conquest of an ever-growing public that looks to it for all that is broadly and deeply discerning in U. S. stage production...