Word: oswald
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During all the dark years of World War I, Oswald Spengler in a dank Munich tenement suffered from endless headache while he composed Der Untergang des Abendlandes. During the '20s, readers in seven languages suffered likewise in the effort to follow its vast erudition, cosmic vision, Teutonic mysticism. Americans read it as The Decline of the West. Because its title suggests doom & disintegration, and because it was the gospel of the Nazi intellectuals, The Decline of the West is perhaps the most misunderstood of the influential books of the 20th Century. Last week a U. S. disciple of Spengler...
Born among the Harz Mountains in 1880, Oswald Spengler loved peasants, lonely landscapes, flowers. He revered Goethe, adapted his philosophy of destiny-inspired evolution to mankind's history. Through Halle, Munich, Berlin he pursued a Ph.D. in mathematics and philosophy. In later years Spengler's contempt for Communism, forecast of Caesarism, belief in ruthless action over thought made him a Nazi favorite. But he despised Hitler's racial theories, self-conscious sense of history-making-and said so boldly until his death...
...newsmen. The implication that Hitler and Mussolini wanted him out-first advanced by Henry Wallace, offered last week by Governor Lehman-now had more than tacit sanction of the President himself. Wallace had been reproved by many people and Lehman's repetition by still more (said Oswald Garrison Villard, "It seems to me that your declaration that a vote for Willkie will be a vote for Hitler . . . touches the low-water mark of unfair, unjust and intolerable partisanship . . . playing upon passions and prejudices which you ought to be the last man in the State of New York...
Unintentionally significant is the scene in which Danny makes a general confession of all his young life's trespasses, receives absolution from the priest. Omniscient Oswald Spengler called autobiography a modern substitute for auricular confession. James T. Farrell has been pouring out powerful, bitter autobiographical tales for eleven years. But he has yet to feel artistic absolution, personal release from the tragic burden of his earlier environment. He plans a series of perhaps 50 volumes. The first 3,000 pages form a major contribution to U. S. literature. But his remorseless pictures of Irish-American life, from the sacristy...
Onetime editor-owner of The Nation, lifetime liberal, Oswald Garrison Villard appeared before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee to argue that third terms are a bad thing and all Presidents are greedy for them. His prime example: "Despite President Coolidge's 'I do not choose to run,' he threw himself on his bed in an agony of disappointment and was unapproachable for two days after the news reached him that Mr. Hoover had been nominated...