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TODAY AND DESTINY: Excerpts from Spengler's The Decline of the West-Edited by Edwin Franden Dakin-Knopf...
Unintentionally significant is the scene in which Danny makes a general confession of all his young life's trespasses, receives absolution from the priest. Omniscient Oswald Spengler called autobiography a modern substitute for auricular confession. James T. Farrell has been pouring out powerful, bitter autobiographical tales for eleven years. But he has yet to feel artistic absolution, personal release from the tragic burden of his earlier environment. He plans a series of perhaps 50 volumes. The first 3,000 pages form a major contribution to U. S. literature. But his remorseless pictures of Irish-American life, from the sacristy...
...introduced more permanent operating innovations, made a higher salary ($100,000) than any surviving railroader. His last spectacular gesture came in 1933, when he bought his way (for $10,000,000) into the No. 1 stockholder's seat of mighty New York Central. Widely read, a quoter of Spengler and Ortega y Gasset. he wrote an authoritative book on railroads, another on anthracite. His motto: "Be audacious." His battlecry: "Management is notoriously underpaid...
This sinning, suffering, repenting novelist has impressed two generations chiefly as a religious philosopher. Predicted cranky, omniscient Oswald Spengler: "To Dostoevski's Christianity the next thousand years will belong...
Since the 16th-Century days of Albrecht Dürer, art has not been Germany's strong point. But Critic Adolf, who like Philosopher Oswald Spengler strongly believes that art is a measure of national vitality, has insisted that Germany's artists, like Germany's women, create prolifically for the Fatherland. Three weeks ago, a month after Critic Hitler had taken a tourist's view of Paris' half-empty Louvre Museum (TIME, July 8), Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess opened in Munich a huge exhibit (1,397 paintings and sculptures by 741 Germans) showing...