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Heroes & Beasts of Spain contains nine grim stories comparable in their nihilism and graphic power to Ambrose Bierce's tales of the U. S. Civil War. It is a harsh, unsparing book. The fascists who crowd its pages are brutal, the revolutionists fanatical, the peasants stupid, the intellectuals timidly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hater of Hate | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

In an editorial Jolas says: "The world-crisis and its resultant suicidal nihilism and materialism is still running its historic course. Chiliastic schemers with a rationalist bias are vulgarising the issues. . . ."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Zululand | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

Ersatz. Of the hour and a half speech which followed, during which Orator Hitler slowly worked himself up to normal platform frenzy, a half hour was devoted to a labored introduction rehearsing events "since the abdication of the Kaiser," for "fairness requires that our results be judged by what would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Purge Speech | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

Here at Harvard there is a peculiar opportunity to study the unfolding of this thought, for there is an ever greater flow of students to the graduate schools who are trying to make up for the time wasted at some college conducted on Dean McConn's principles of nihilism. Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MYOPIA HUNTS KNOWLEDGE | 10/30/1928 | See Source »

Lou's mother had seen the unwisdom of their marrying. But she was a gunmetal woman. She withered everything she touched with destructive analysis, consumed people's illusions with acid irony. After 50 years, her search for life had grown fierce, into a crusade to deny life-nihilism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Primal* | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

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