Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good lesson to erring youths and indiscriminate cinemagoers. It tells about the scion of a wealthy family who allowed himself to get into an automobile wreck with the wrong girl, thus precipitating a scandal that killed his invalid mother. Father banishes Son; grimly the gates close behind his homelife. War . . . shell shock... amnesia. The boy returns, having lost trace of his family, his past, his own name. The heroine marries him anyhow. One day he wanders into his mother's bedroom to weep on her pillow. Father sees Son; tenderly the gates open again...
...Hamburg to Davos-Platz in the Canton of the Grisons, on a three weeks' visit," Soon after his arrival, he perceives that his cigars have a flat taste. Before his three weeks are over, he has a bad cold. Before his return to Hamburg, to a world at war, he has spent seven years in a mortal fairyland...
...second volume Hans Castorp comes down in time to fight in the World War. He is scarcely conscious of the masque in which he has been an actor. Yet he is no longer a total blank as on his arrival. He has listened to Settembrini talking democratic politics. Peeperkorn, who has won Madame Chauchat and dominated Castorp with the rest, is the first...
...sense all the persons of the story are symbols of certain ideas in the muddle that preceded the War. Peeperkorn personifies the strength, the glitter of royalty. What gives the metaphor power is the juxtaposition of death. Author Mann shows how men can adapt themselves to an environment of mortality by forgetting its existence. So countries squabble and chatter in the presence of catastrophe; so men, in the shadow of an enormous horror, pursue their silly and incongruous intrigues...
...other was a stocky Jew of 30-Charles A. Levine-an industrialist of Brooklyn. He began his business career by selling second-hand automobiles. He made several million dollars by salvaging ammunition after the War. He met his wife when she won a Brooklyn beauty contest. Something romantic in him, as well as shrewd business acumen, prompted him to affiliate himself with aviation manufacturing. The U. S. Government refused to grant him an air mail contract, criticized his record. Aviators said he was trying to commercialize a sport, when financial squabbles delayed Chamberlin's flight. Levine...