Word: oswald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home-grown teeth and getting store ones is distressing to sensitive people. They chiefly dread 1 ) encountering friends and business associates while they are in toothless condition; 2) having their new teeth change their facial appearance. Nowadays good dentists, with patience and ingenuity, allay such apprehensions. Last week Dr. Oswald M. Dresen of Marquette University Dental School, addressing the American Dental Association convened in Cleveland, observed that many prosthodontists now ask their patients for snapshots. If a patient has no good picture of himself, said Dr. Dresen, the dentist is likely to turn portrait photographer and take some himself. Purpose...
This sinning, suffering, repenting novelist has impressed two generations chiefly as a religious philosopher. Predicted cranky, omniscient Oswald Spengler: "To Dostoevski's Christianity the next thousand years will belong...
Since the 16th-Century days of Albrecht Dürer, art has not been Germany's strong point. But Critic Adolf, who like Philosopher Oswald Spengler strongly believes that art is a measure of national vitality, has insisted that Germany's artists, like Germany's women, create prolifically for the Fatherland. Three weeks ago, a month after Critic Hitler had taken a tourist's view of Paris' half-empty Louvre Museum (TIME, July 8), Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess opened in Munich a huge exhibit (1,397 paintings and sculptures by 741 Germans) showing...
During the '20s and '30s, Critic Van Wyck Brooks pondered a theory and a project. His project was to write a synthesis of U. S. culture in terms of the New England mind. The theory, used chiefly as a literary framework for the project, was German Philosopher Oswald Spengler's theory of cultural cycles: that cultures, like individuals, pass through youth and maturity to old age and death. Cultures are born in the countryside among "a homogeneous people, living close to the soil, intensely religious. . . . There is a springtime feeling in the air . . . a mo ment...
...There was first a noble front of such eminent moralists as Norman Thomas, oldtime Pacifist Oswald Garrison Villard and Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, who is full of guilty feelings about the last...