Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attributing the evils to economic factors alone, but tried through methodical research to discover the causes of poverty and unemployment, and to improve social conditions gradually, through an extension of the existing state machinery. Measurement and publicity were her key words, and her approach was almost mathematical in her passion for statistics, and her belief that once statistics were published and brought to nation-wide attention, social reform would naturally follow...
ESCAPE IN PASSION (589 pp.)-Jules Romains (Translafed by Gerard Hopkins)-Knopf...
Escape in Passion, like its predecessors, is a novel with a vast and varied cast. Its 400-odd characters - including an orphan boy, an electrician, an absconding millionaire, an actress, a smattering of Cabinet ministers-have one notable advantage over Balzac's and Zola's 19th Century people: Romains' travel...
Weighed down by international depression and their own heavy thinking, Chronicler Romains' characters literally escape into passion. Some seek normal love, others prefer perversion. Result (in the English translation): to make his novel safe for U.S. family readers, Romains says he has felt obliged to make "completely brutal excisions." The deletions are certain to stimulate readers' imaginations. Example: "If you like, I'll sit at the piano (three words deleted...
Even with some of their most private thoughts blue-penciled, Escape in Passion's characters will probably seem alive to the devoted few who have followed their progress since 1932. Most newcomers to Romains' encyclopedic study will experience the puzzlement of a pedestrian who suddenly sees the muddy, sweaty finalists pant past in the last stages of a transcontinental bicycle race. He has no idea of where they are pedaling to, no conception of the vigor and dash with which they began the contest. Nonetheless, he feels an instinctive desire to cheer -if only because...