Word: wellsians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Antonio Longoria is a scientific amphibian. A short, myopic Spaniard of 49 who lives in Lakewood, Ohio, Mr. Longoria is at home both in the real world of technological utility and the dream world of Wellsian fantasy. He has devised some ingenious welding techniques, feathered his nest comfortably from his welding patents. He is also a persistent and well-publicized ballyhooer of the "death ray" machine he claims to have invented (TIME, Aug. 10, 1936). Says he, this machine can kill cats and dogs, bring down pigeons on the wing, at ranges up to four miles...
Difference. Observers patiently comparing the weeks of September 1914, with the weeks of September 1939, got nowhere. People who had expected war's outbreak in terms of London raided, Berlin bombed, poison gas, bacteriological war, H. G. Wellsian Shape-of-Things-to-Come war-beginning in terror, developing in devastation, ending in anarchy-found the drama otherwise than their imaginations had pictured. People who recalled troops going off to battle in World War I remembered singing crowds, enthusiasm, cheers, tears, flowers, flags, and were puzzled at the stoic silence, the grave efficiency, that marked the moves of this...
Told in Edgar Hopkins' subdued commuter's style, this demi-Wellsian Downfall of the West packs a clammy warning...
...Wellsian telescope on Mars might have detected human congestion in the U. S. Capital that morning. Some 600,000 people, many of them standing on peach baskets, walled the royal route from Union Station, past the Capitol, down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House. The 32nd President of the United States was at the station. Mr. Roosevelt said: "At last I greet you." King George VI said: "Mr. President, it is indeed a pleasure for Her Majesty and myself to be here...
Many a young English novel today is obsessed with the fear of war, Fascism, Communism, Democracy's collapse, neurosis. Allegorical figures of Fascism, Communism, Democracy wrestle semi-essay-istically, through Wellsian plots, with a hero nebulous enough to squeeze at last into some sort of mystical bomb shelter. Such novels seem curiously at odds with the authors' vigorous personal activities-mountain climbing, travel, hiking, sports...