Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PASSIONS SPIN THE PLOT - Vardis Fisher-Caxton & Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). If the last two volumes of his tetralogy are on a par with the first two (In Tragic Life-TIME, July 3; Passions Spin the Plot}. U. S. critics will be speaking of Idaho's Author Vardis Fisher in the same breath with Indiana's Theodore Dreiser. No less doggedly candid than Dreiser but a more artful writer, Author Fisher intends his four-decker novel to be an honest book. Because he has had a hard, unhappy life and because he writes only of what he knows...
...recognition now safe under his belt, to take sweeping, super-drastic measures of defense against Japan. The best defense, he reasoned, is to make bleak, sparsely populated Siberia so attractive to Russians that they will swarm there with enthusiasm and, once established, fight to defend their homes. The tragic error of Nicholas II was to suppose that he could beat Japan with soldiers from European Russia who could not understand why Asiatic soil 4,000 miles from their homes was worth fighting for. Wiser than Nicholas II, Stalin I plunged Russia last week into the most farsighted and stupendous effort...
...consideration I checked my impressions with two friends. . . . I was interested to find that they both agreed with my opinion: that reading Ulysses in its entirety . . . did not tend to excite sexual impulses or lustful thoughts but that its net effect on them was only that of a somewhat tragic and very powerful commentary on the inner lives of men and women...
...right -- absolutely right. We cannot go through a season without at least one anonymous volume on the life of some anonymous writer. This time it's an anonymous, autobiography, Rough Hewn (Appleton-Century, $2.50), and we suggest that you follow its tragic, humorous, and exciting events carefully. As Rough Hewn is the autobiography of one in our midst. Winner Take Nothing is a series of sketchy biographies, all rolled up into one gloriously gory volume by that master, Ernest Hemingway (Scribners, $2.00). A collection of sharp, straightforward stories, it holds a sinister fascination that tells us to urge...
...when unpopular Pope Adrian VI died, a wreath appeared on his doctor's door, inscribed: "To the Deliverer of his country, S. P. Q. R." Of the four, Aretino's end was happiest. After tremendous ups & downs he settled in Venice, waxed fat and urbane, survived a tragic love affair and went down wenching...