Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cover) FINNEGANS WAKE-James Joyce -Viking...
This week, for the first time, a writer had attempted to make articulate this wordless world of sleep. The writer is James Joyce; the book, Finnegans Wake-final title of his long-heralded Work in Progress. In his 57 years this erudite and fanciful Irishman, from homes in exile all over Europe, has written two books that have influenced the work of his contemporaries more than any others of his time: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the best of innumerable novels picturing an artist's struggle with his environment; Ulysses, considered baffling and obscure...
Finnegans Wake is a difficult book- too difficult for most people to read. In fact, it cannot be "read" in the ordinary sense. It is perhaps the most consciously obscure work that a man of acknowledged genius has produced. Its four sections run to 628 pages, and from its first line...
...country-which replaced the professional soldier with the soldier drawn from public lists. Napoleon Bonaparte, "Son of the Revolution," believed that "God marches with the biggest battalions"; in 1813, at the zenith of his success, he commanded a conscripted army of 1,140,000 men. In the wake of Napoleonic conquests most countries of Europe adopted conscription until, in the World War, some 50,000,000 men were compulsorily drafted into service...
...Roosevelt's policy toward Europe was now definitely known to place the defensive frontier of democracy in France. Toward Asia, Mr. Roosevelt wanted to extend the U. S. defensive frontier to Guam, but the House had stopped him at Wake Island. Senators who disapprove of Mr. Roosevelt's frontier extensions fell huffing & puffing upon his air corps expansion as unjustifiable...