Word: solon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Discussing the present "cold war," the Vermont solon declared that a giant advertising campaign behind the Iron Curtain was the best way in which to avert another World...
...ranking officer in the Coop hierarchy. Mr. Cole is a white-haired man whose kindly face was carefully mounted on a tab collar; throughout the convention he sat midway between two life-size marble statues, one of a Greek athlete and the other of a Greek solon, presumably representing the two sides to the Coop's retailing activities. His first official act was to call upon Mr. Humphreys for a rendition of the previous year's minutes...
...four. Theologically, it is the dialectical logic of that trinitarian oneness whose triunity is as much a necessity to the understanding of Godhead as higher mathematics is to the measurement of motion. Religiously, its logic, human beyond rationality, is the expression of a need epitomized in the paradox of Solon weeping for his dead son. "Why do you weep," asked a friend, "since it cannot help?" Said Solon: "That is why I weep-because it cannot help...
...live long enough to polish it far beyond the raggedness of "The Bulwark." This superiority inheres in the book's construction. Cowperwood--his business and his philanderings--occupies the stage at all times; hence there is none of the diffusion of energy that mars the treatment of Solon Barnes and his splintering family in "The Bulwark." Until his death, Cowperwood carries the novel, and although his machinations with the control of the London "underground" approach fantasy, the weight of his personality inevitably overrides the reader's doubts. It is this same brutal personal force which stands Cowperwood by himself...
...Dreiser's moving desire to explain the life force in other than material terms demanded a religious justification of his views. Not until "The Bulwark" did he discover one. Then, he saw a possible solution in the Quaker doctrine of "the inner light" which animated the life of Solon Banes, and which moved his daughter Etta to realize "the love and peace involved in consideration for others." In this frame, the study of Brahmanism becomes merely another buttress to the synthesis of religion and communism. When Dreiser has Berenice declare that "One must live for something outside one's self...