Word: seem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While they are in power, Europe's dictators, premiers and tycoons seem to be sitting solidly on their thrones, or behind them. Just how rapidly they can lose their strength, how fast and far they can fall, and how quickly they can be forgotten, is demonstrated in Isaac Marcosson's reminiscences of Europe's heroes of 15 years ago. The work of a veteran Sateve-post contributor, Turbulent Years' 18 chapters include sketches of Trotsky, Sun Yatsen, Calles, an essay on dictators in general, as Marcosson saw them. Some samples...
...thinking of Paris, and all the teeming wards of Genevieve; whom he knew, whom he loved. People who lived and let live, people who could make dirty jokes seem clean, people who knew more than Carlyle about "the imperishable dignity of mankind...
...travelogue of such superb beauty and excitement that it makes the opposite qualities in most African travelogues seem the result of sheer malevolence on the part of their makers...
...native music as the basis for a brilliant accompanying score and furnished an announcer, John Martin, who gives a running account of the proceedings without sounding like a hysteric with crumbs in his throat. The net result is an entertainment which not only makes the Dark Continent cease to seem dull but makes many Holly-wood A pictures soporific by comparison. Best bit part: Pygmy kibitzer sneering at the bridge building...
Blind alleys are familiar streets in literary biographies. Writers seem to lose their way just when they ought to be going strong-as Melville, after writing Moby Dick, turned out the weird, confused, unreadable Pierre. Sometimes writers escape quickly; sometimes, like Melville, they are gone for good. But when a writer begins to follow his genius up a blind alley, all that admirers can do is wait and hope they will return together...