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Franz Werfel, the author, is concerned with the blind fling with which the gods dash the cup from mortal lips. Proverb calls it the slip. Werfel does not bother to define it. He is simply eaten up with a gigantic bitterness at a world which is given reason and at the same time irresistible fate, luck or a divinity that rips reason to ribbons. Werfel is annoyed because God has given him just enough sense to understand what an impotent fool he really is. This gloomy abstraction is woven into a play about a wealthy farmer's family to which...
...also spoke whose mind and body and mortal affairs have been prepared for assumption by the Saviour in the near future-J. Krishnamurti, whom Mrs. Besant brought to England in 1908 to be educated at Oxford and nurtured in pious humility. This Messiah-designate is now 30 and before and after his transfiguration will tour the world with twelve 'apostles" chosen by and including Mrs Besant. A publicity corps will herald his comings, echo his goings. Last week, by way of preparing the world to receive him, he said...
...these were mingled in a single rhapsody too great for the hand of mortal man, it would not equal the majesty and the splendor of old 'Suwanee River' played on the ukulele and hummed by the bright-eyed Florida maidens underneath the new magnolia trees, with the soothing odor gushing forth in a blazing November moonlight...
...constantly had the feeling while in Duke's presence, that he was an unhappy, disgruntled, soured mortal...
...died an unhappy, dissatisfied mortal, super-abundantly rich in millions but bankrupt in friends. He was so engrossed in battling fiercely for money that he took no time to acquire education and nursed such a nature that he became incapable of attracting troops of friends. The last time I visited his native state, newspapers were full of condemnation of alleged tactics on his part to relieve him of certain taxes. His own people apparently regarded him in the same light as he was regarded in the financial and business world...