Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...understanding himself and by courageously looking at everything in the face, helps those who study him to understand themselves and to boldly exercise free inquiry in all matters. You may reject his philosophy as absurd and impossible, but you can not escape, once you have read him, from the powerful and fierce personality that so ruthlessly slashed at Christianity, democracy, feminism, and modern morality, that held up as ideals the Will to Power and the honest, fearless, cruel, yea-sayings superman. Ecce Homo! The critic and destroyer, the builder and the prophet...
...Chen. Who is this Chinese with whom the august Chancellor of the Exchequer deigned to bandy words? In 1878 he was born in Trinidad, British West Indies; went to London, qualified as a solicitor (lawyer) and enjoyed a successful practice for some years in the capital of the very power he is now fighting tooth and nail...
...other monarch of a great power is so important to his subjects as the Emperor of Japan. To them he is a descendant of the Sun Goddess, and thus actually possessed of Godhood. Moreover, only one dynasty has reigned* and still reigns in Japan. All spiritual and temporal good flows from the Emperor. Even the greatest of all Japanese victories, the capture of Port Arthur by Admiral Togo (1905), was officially ascribed to "the virtue of the Emperor." Therefore last week when the people of Japan set about the funeral of the late Emperor Yoshihito (TIME, Jan. 3), they very...
...Manhattan, isle of psychlones. I'LL HAVE A FINE FUNERAL - Pierre La Maziere - Brentano ($2). Upholster's apprentice into French Senator, into cynic. JILL - E. M. Delafield - Harper ($2). Life in looser London. CUSTODY CHILDREN - Everett Young - Holt ($2.50). Battledore and shuttlecock with the daughter of divorcees. POWER - Lion Feuchtwanger - Viking Press ($2.50). The rise and fall of Jud Siisz, great Jew. SORREL AND SON - Warwick Deeping* - Knopf ($2.50). How a son justified his father's confidence...
...prosaic, mushroom, damnable town--has been started, is growing beneath our very nose- We believe they have a "City Hall" and a "Government,"--we are not sure that the College, whose refining, softening, broadening influence has so long been felt throughout the whole country, is not partly in the power of a collection of dram-drinking politicians...