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Because Dictator Josef Pilsudski has publicly made such statements as that "Parliament is a prostitute!" (TIME, July 9, 1928) and because he somewhat resembles Philosopher Nietzsche in face and whiskers, his government promptly confiscated all Nietzschean campaign pictures, all papers in which they appeared...
...harmony he said: "The rules forbid this succession of chords; very well, I allow it." At weepers over his music he laughed: "The fools! . . . They are not artists. Artists are made of fire; they do not weep." He considered God his only equal. He lived precariously, striding along the Nietzschean tightrope. For all his self-sufficiency Beethoven could "never see a pretty face without being smitten." But a love-affair, he boasted, never lasted longer than seven months. He loved three cousins, his aristocratic pupils, Tesi, 25, Pepi, 21, and passionate Giulietta, 16. "by turn and all together." June Prime...
...tall impetuous Teuton held the Reparations stage in Paris all last week. Speaking for Germany in gruff, rasping English, he seemed to epitomize the Nietzschean commandment, " Behard!" As a matter of fact anyone who has been spoken to for five minutes by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the German Reichsbank, and, today, Chairman of the German Delegation to the Second Dawes Committee in Paris (TIME, Feb 11), knows that the man is as drastically metallic as his pistol-shot name-Schacht...
...carping old-maid cousin, finance the whims and mistresses of a charming but debauched artist brother. Sophie married Davey out of her need for him, but the omnipresence of his relatives drove her to a garish New York apartment, complete with lovelorn poets, exaggerated cigaret holders, and the Nietzschean superman who mightily desired her. Outnumbered and surrounded, David wins...
Regarding the pomposities of Busch of Madison, Wis. [TIME, June 7], couldn't it be arranged to get this hungry blood-lapping, Nietzschean blond super-beast out of his cage? Perhaps after a little outdoor exercise he would lose some of his zest for splashing ink unnecessarily...