Word: vistas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MEYER, Swiss master-writer of the late nineteenth century, combined delicacy of art with a decisive, compact handling of his historical subjects that is all too often lacking in German authors, especially when they find the whole vista of a past civilization spread before them. Meyer is rarely discursive; he possesses startling dramatic sense, a passionate feelings for the great individual; these a translation can reproduce, but the perfection of style that marks the original it was not in the power of Professor Hauch to give again in his translation. It is to his credit that he has captured...
Aware of the Parlin vista, aware also that more wealth reposes in Manhattan than anywhere else in the U. S., the aviation industry last week arrayed itself as never before in the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce's first New York show...