Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...BENDA is one of those writers who view the present state of the world with-alarm. His mildest predictions of future disaster foresee the disappearance of higher civilization from the face of the earth. His gloomier fore-boding envisage a universal war sufficiently perfect to accomplish the destruction of the human race itself. Having arrived at these conclusions he then sets out to discover the forces which make them inevitable...
...have the new passion of nationalism; a passion even stronger in its potentialities for disaster than that of class or of race. M. Benda's analysis of the nationalism which grew up in the latter half of the nineteenth century and found its highest expression in the World War is keen and comprehensive. But it is not so much with the nationalism of men of action that M. Benda is concerned in his present work as with the nationalism of the intellectuals. Artists, scientists, philosophers, and poets, men of whom a certain degree of universality and detachment from material objects...
...finds that justice has been a main chord. South and North, each has its turn--probably the reason both these sections of our country have acclaimed the book as a classic. A striking feature is the manner in which Benet handles such a wide field. One might say the war is dealt with in terms of various imaginary individuals and their reactions. This lends that personal touch which serves equally well as a main, solemn connecting thread through out the story and as a gripping bond with the reader. With all the many complications which might easily arise under...
...tireless scholar who disclaims his labors in his disdain for watery-veined pedants. He hates the "arty." His distant cousin is the more-famed Wyndham Lewis, vorticist, painter, novelist (Tarr), philosopher (Time and Western Man), a versatile, experimental da Vinci of the modern art world. Both are World War veterans, who combine literary enthusiasm with active lives...
...funnymen of vaudeville keep it up at war...