Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anthropologists are fascinated by the Motilones, whose customs, language and origin are unknown. When the American Museum of Natural History offered Anthropologist Preston Holder the job of snooping on them, he accepted eagerly. Last week, back in New York, Holder told how he, too, had drawn a blank...
...anthropologist learned ten words of an unknown tongue, but concluded that his host was not a genuine Motilon...
...incident, were likewise gagged. In New York this week one John Sumner, of the Society for Supression of Vice, led three detectives in a raid on the offices of Random House publishers. For reasons best known to himself he ordered confiscated all ten available copies of a widely unknown book of poems, "The Blue Hen's Chickens," and served a summons on a clerk who was so unacquainted with the book that she inquired if it were "a juvenile...
...artist, and never again heard from his family. Now 31 and a U.S. citizen, he illustrates pamphlets for the U.S. Military Government in Germany. Although his war posters had earned him a reputation as a designer, the intensely serious young painter Berliners were talking about last week was still unknown in the U.S. Koerner intended to change that; he refused to sell any of the paintings in his Berlin show. He was saving them for one in Manhattan...
Hence the paradox that the more civilization calls itself civilized, the more imperturbably it shrugs at the death of men by millions. Hence, too, the surprising fact that the name of one of the century's three or four most remarkable writers is still practically unknown in the U.S. For Franz Kafka's unrelenting theme, told and retold in some of the greatest horror stories ever written (The Castle, The Trial, Metamorphosis, the stories in The Great Wall of China), was the nature of God and man's relationship...