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...other Kafka stories and "short pieces," in The Penal Colony, a collection recently published in the U.S. Like the more famous novels, The Trial and The Castle (TIME, April 28, 1947), all the stories are marked with the surface simplicity of fairy tales, and by Kafka's obsessive torment of spirit...
...torment won't be through...
...good if it is not warm!" His windmilling was nothing like Toscanini's economy of gesture, but in its different way it did not seem wasteful: he got the musicians playing over their heads. Says De Sabata: "I scold them, tease them and torment them-but they play very nice-they give...
Britons sweated in record-breaking heat and a torment of national pride. The nation that had cradled the Industrial Revolution bristled at the thought that it needed industrial advice. Murmured one observer: "It's the psychological reaction of a once-great power when she realizes she's got to be dependent on another...
...Small Beginning. A happy, prosperous father and farmer, Tolstoy at 35 seemed destined to end up merely as an eccentric squire. But, increasingly, wrote Tatyana, "the question 'What is all this for?' began to torment him." Spells of rage and self-reproach interrupted "an almost bourgeois happiness." He had already published several short stories and novelettes (The Cossacks) and a book of reminiscences (Childhood, Boyhood & Youth); now he yearned for what he called "leisurely work de longue haleine [of a long-winded kind...