Word: vein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Around Irma and Sam-and an assortment of turn-of-the-century islanders-Novelist William March fashions a choice tropical romp in the serio-comic vein of Satirists Aubrey Menen and Edgar Mittelholzer...
Around Irma and Sam-and an assortment of turn-of-the-century islanders-Novelist William March fashions a choice tropical romp in the serio-comic vein of Satirists Aubrey Menen and Edgar Mittel-holzer...
...fiery Evangelist Dwight L. Moody, who founded the press in 1894. In The Prodigal, copyright 1898, Moody himself delivers a brisk little homily on the perils of cigars, whisky and wild women. More up-to-the-minute, A Visit to Mars is mildly in the modern science-fiction vein. The Martians, it turns out, are not only supermen but super-Christians, who have attained a state of grace. The only graceless, earthian thing about them is their dialogue. Sample; "Our church is over the brow of yonder eminence...
...Gibbon preserves what has kept best in Gibbon: his sly wit, his stately prose rhythms, his knack for making the mummies of history sit up on the printed page and kick off their wrappings, and his intoxication with the grandeur of Rome. Not a philosopher of history in the vein of Spengler, Toynbee and Sorokin, but a true son of the Age of Reason, Gibbon blamed Rome's downfall on the "triumph of barbarism and religion."* His dim view of Christianity shocked his own and successive generations...
...from Hindu yogis to Christian theologians, have studied Jung, though the latter have found his dream world of primordial archetypes to be a pagan rather than a strictly Christian one. Orthodox Freudians have denounced his ideas as pure mysticism. Artists, poets and dancers have found in them a new vein of poetic inspiration...