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...Golden Age." In Europe of 1931, such sad Sagittarii were foredoomed to Communism: duly, at 26, the Hungarian ex-duelist, ex-Zionist and perpetual student joined the party that promised to heal all wounds, including inferiority complexes. The Invisible Writing tells the next stage of Koestler's intellectual vaga bondage, through the labyrinthine ways of Marxism, to safe harbor in London, where he will "live happily ever after, until the Great Mushroom appears in the skies." Along the way Koestler compiles from skulls, rusted barbed wire and interviews with shattered survivors, the history of his old regiment-the commissars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out of the Labyrinth | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...change of socks open the Communist's eyes to "soft living." The lady takes to reading Red literature. When her husband uncovers the situation, the lacy makes a decision. The Communist is on his way to Toulouse and his hostess is preparing to join in his political vaga bondage by ordering herself a pair of stout walking shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Play in Manhattan: Dec. 31, 1934 | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

...will be the lecturer as well as the subject that will draw the Vaga bond to the Germanic Museum at ten o'clock. Professor Fay, unquestionably an indefatigable scholar is still a hum an lecturer. It is due to the example of such men that the Vagabond has come to the conclusion that a good teacher on the plat form is worth any two professorial pedants is the stack room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/14/1931 | See Source »

...Stevens had previously designed E. H. Button's Hussar, Mortimer L. Schiffs Dolphin, W. L. Mellon's Vaga-bondia, and Vincent Astor's Nourmahal (with Architect Ferris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Yachting Millions | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...messed with for its political content by Samuel Hopkins Adams, a third-rate novelist, author of Revelry. It is the story of the Oil scandal, the Ohio Gang and the late President Harding, dragged out again and jumbled in with a lot of other sensational copy - the evangelic vaga ries of Aimee Semple McPherson, athletic professionalism at the University of Southern California, high class prostitution at Hollywood, California's "Reds," labor college? anti-syndicalism "outrages" - structurally built to reproduce life .-.s Mr. Sinclair has seen it lived in Southern California, and mentally f oundationed - or undermined - to show Capitalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sinclairism | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

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