Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First rumors reached the CRIMSON through Hick's friends and members of the Young Communist League. A New York official of the Communist Party confirmed the rumor, and later in the day it was learned from the New Masses that Hicks had broken with the publication...
...Countess and the General she has provided, furthermore, symbols of the old Germany accommodating itself with desperation to the new. In Dr. Ditten's stiff, selfless intellectuality the philosophy of the totalitarian State gets its most precise expression. But the conflict in the mind of this authentic, unhappy young German is the major conflict of the book...
...Time. These had given him a European reputation as one of the most gifted German writers of his generation. That reputation was confirmed by most U. S. critics last February with the English translation of The Age of the Fish, a poetic, Dostoevskian Goodbye, Mr. Chips, in which a young German schoolmaster discovers the maggots in Nazi morality...
...Child of Our Time tells a no less timely story. Central character is a young Nazi lance-corporal, for whom the Nazi slogan, "The individual doesn't count," is not merely a slogan but a true observation based on his pre-Hitler, threadbare misery. "With love, a man may reach heaven," he quotes. "With hatred," he adds, "we shall go farther...
...although Author Huxley views the natives' misfortunes with sympathy, her sympathy with the whites makes Red Strangers a tragi-comedy rather than a tragedy. The final scene (after two generations of British rule): A young Kikuyu farmer takes his first ride in a plane, trudges boastfully home, pleased with himself and the white bwana, determined to name his forthcoming child Aeroplane...