Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conant Endorses Embargo Repeal." "Borab Says Repeal Means War." "Seymour Says Allies Must Win." The writhing head-lines pound meaninglessly at the Vagabond's head as he tries to understand and to make up his own mind. Join the Allies and save democracy from the totalitarians? Stay out under all circumstances? Go into the business with measures short of war? Not just idle questions, for perhaps they are even matters of life and death to the Vagabond...
Meanwhile Rex Ingram turned down many a good job in Hollywood, determined not to go back until he finds a story "I know, understand, believe in." His own novel is out of the question, he declares: the censors would make mincemeat of it. Evidently influenced by Hemingway (Rex Ingram's favorite author), Mars in the House of Death traces the short life of a famed bullfighter named Chuchito, illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman and a gypsy dancer, who grows up among Andalusian fighting bulls and Barcelona harlots, falls in love (innocently) with his half-sister while having...
...editors of the New Masses mourn Mr. Hicks' fall from grace because he did not--as they did--"thoroughly understand the ideas" of Communism. This is, of course, a perfect example of the militant intolerance which distinguishes Communism as one of the most fanatic of all religions. The true Communist will not grant an inch, even though his intellectual defences are completely shattered. Mr. Hicks, it seems, is not a true Communist. For he still values the integrity of his reason over the dictates of dogma...
...Missourian who went west and into the dairy business, picked up extra money lecturing on what he calls "metaphysics." One night in 1933, he now recalls, he woke up with an idea for an economic cureall, forthwith explained it to his wife and two daughters. They did not understand it. Minor Pierce Long nevertheless went ahead with his Ray System Corporation, Inc. As has many another fiscal dreamer, he proposed to issue patented, pink & blue Raychecks in denominations of 50? to $10, have merchants redeem them in goods or U. S. currency at face value. Redemption funds would come from...
...callous, rude, jealous, possessive, vindictive, and worse. But he knows that these traits stem from her "eager love of 'It'-the infinite-with which she wants to be naturally, strongly, connected. She wants to repose quietly and physically on the bosom of God." That Hutchins "Hapgood can understand...