Word: quests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Residents of Omaha and Nebraska claim that when Spanish Explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, in 1541, went in quest of Quivera, a town of which an Indian prisoner had given a glowing description ("a land of gold"), he came to Nebraska. When he arrived, he found nothing more than a village of seminomadic Indians, realized that the stories of streets paved with gold were myths, returned to Mexico. But the land has become a land covered with gold-the gold of corn and wheat. Hence Nebraska's annual Royal Castle...
...coat from his uncle puts her in his disfavor and he marries her sister, really a complicated situation, Like the Victorian hero, the sight of his former beloved married to his uncle (all of which comes in due course of events) sends him, not to Africa in quest of big game, but to South America on an engineering job. The death of his wife at home and of his uncle solve the situation and all ends happily...
...dream the metamorphosis of Romanticism transformed the young writers of Germany. As in a dream they responded to the mystic inspiration of Fichte, uniting in the quest for the blue flower, seeking the impalpable of the ideal. Friedrich Schlegel, opium-wafted Buddha, contemplated the concentric circles of an impenetrably intricate philosophy. August Wilhelm Schlegel, poseur, literateur, bon-viveur, set forth to win poetic glory, is remembered for his translation of Shakespeare. Ludwig Tieck's majestic, melancholy search for the essence of fairyland beauty produced an impossible, capricious comedy, "Puss in Boots." Kleist awakened from his dream of tearing from Goethe...
...recoup the losses which his public service occasioned. Strangely apropos to all this seem the words of Harold Laski in the current Harper's: "This democratic elite cannot devote itself to the acquisition of power, of wealth, of authority, for these things are fatal to independence, and their quest breeds men concerned rather with truths that hope for acceptance than with truth." Still, Castor says it is an unpleasant load off his mind, and I am inclined to agree with...
...Meyer). Though this lavish scene forms only the background for the hero, he is the least "real" (i. e., objectified) person in the book. A picaresque Everyman, he wanders the world searching for his soul, finally finds it; but most readers will be less interested in his quest than in his adventures by the way. Not a great book, except in size, Anthony Adverse is a solid, worthy addition to U. S. Letters. Postponed from month to month, it finally appears as July choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...