Word: modernism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gunther spent eight months touring Asia. Commented the London Evening Standard long before Inside Asia was completed: "In pre-war days a lifetime of study and devotion was supposed to be necessary to acquire even a bowing acquaintance with the Orient. Although Mr. Gunther has all the conveniences of modern travel at his command, there may be many who will think that the shortness of his sojourn scarcely justifies so ambitious a title." But Mr. Gunther also has countless reliable friends-politicians, newspapermen, informants-who are more than willing to pump him full of biographical detail, information, gossip, anecdotes, wherever...
...interpreted by Clausewitz and made "totalitarian" by Ludendorff, who believed in the nation-in-arms theory and the war of extermination. Its weakness is a traditional reliance on Schrecklichkeit (frightfulness) which-though it won at Munich-is apt to backfire by stiffening instead of breaking opponents' morale. The modern German theory of victory by Blitzkrieg (lightning war) is untried and, in the opinion of many experts, unsound. Further, if Germany plans to carry war deep into Russian territory in case of Soviet participation, old Moscow Generals January and February (alias Cold and Hunger) will probably ruin Chief of High...
Although a modern country doctor makes his calls in an automobile, 55,000,000 U. S. rural dwellers are still getting horse-&-buggy medical care. To gather facts on this problem, the staff of Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, N. Y., under the direction of Physician-in-Chief George Miner Mackenzie, last autumn held a conference of country doctors and public-health experts. Last week the papers of the Cooperstown Conference were published in a well-documented handbook, containing the most complete information on U. S. rural medicine to date.* Significant facts...
Waldo Frank, 47, is an inverted Theodore Dreiser, a modern transcendentalist, a mystical Marxist. He is also, at times and in spots, a forceful novelist. Combining passion and penetration with plodding Joycean prose and purblind bookishness, he is a perfect layer cake of the admirable and the irritating...
...best book because it is his clearest and most interesting, The Bridegroom Cometh "dramatizes [says Frank] in flesh and blood the loss of the religious instinct in modern American life, and both the need and the promise of its triumphant rebirth." It is really a sequel: all of Frank's writing is focused on the search for a new religion...