Word: arcadia
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...narrative with excursions into Egyptian and Ethiopian culture, discourses on religion, military tactics, natural history, and love. His form and mode of thought had a great effect on men of the Renaissance: Tasso and Cervantes borrowed from him; many of the Elizabethans−particularly Sir Philip Sidney in The Arcadia−mined his work. The conventions he pioneered of a noble hero and heroine, accompanied by friends who are more comic and far more human, still survive in books, movies and TV serials...
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...score of nascent Prime Ministers have strolled its tranquil two acres. Poets from Sir Philip (Arcadia) Sidney to W. H. (The Age of Anxiety) Auden first met their muse in the hallowed grassiness spread between Christ Church and Merton College and the crew-splashed "Isis" that is the River Thames. To Christ Church dons the explanation for it all was maddeningly simple: Minister Sandys was an Oxonian, yes, but a Magdalen man! The idea was to steer through the meadow the High Street traffic that now thunders past Sandys' old college over Magdalen Bridge. This, of course, delighted Magdalen...
...whirling panorama of slant hatted insurance salesmen, cow-like women, bull-like men, and smiling madmen, Harington weaves a crazy pattern of the present. His starting thread is Hal Hingham, an agent of Arcadia Life, afraid of sales prospects, and frightened of his bulbous, seductive landiady. The image of Hingham the failure is obvious: "The broken, abandoned pencil-sharpener had depressed him. It reminded him of himself. People didn't care how they treated mass-produced equipment." He was a nobody in world that seemed complex and cruel. Even at childhood his father appeared one day only long enough...
...roach-ridden boardinghouse and into a smart hotel; he gets waiters to seat him where he wishes; he sweeps a startled Rose into bed with her clothes on after a three-year kissless courtship. And in one day on the road, he sells enough insurance to become one of Arcadia's top-ranking salesmen and nearly violate the Centralist rule of moderation...