Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first rilogy that earned Author Undset the Nobel prize, for Kristin Lavransdatter combines the glamor of saga with the timelessness of fine fiction, the accuracy of sound history...
...Author. Archaeologist and historian by training, Author Undset is a novelist by instinct and by closely scheduled labor. Dressed in the national costume of a mediaeval Viking matron, she devotes the day to her five children, to her 16th century house, to her famous flower garden. and the quiet evening to her writing...
Educated at the University of Virginia. Member of the House of Representatives (1895-1915); author of the Underwood Tariff Bill; majority leader...
...drunken, whirled and danced their dark saturnalia, heads thrown weirdly back as if their necks were broken, white teeth and eyeballs gleaming, while couples seizing one another from time to time fled from the circle, as if pursued by furies, into the forest to share and slake their ecstasy." Author Seabrook understood the totality of this abandon following as it did upon ceremonial Voodoo rites of purification. He himself, a white, an American, shared in the rites. At his initiation ceremony, he says, he witnessed the virtual transsub stantiation of girl into goat, at the sacrificial altar. Goat moaned, girl...
Another ritual the author witnessed: garbed as half man, half woman in a ruffled shirt, cutaway coat, silk hat, and cigar stub, Papa Nebo, an hermaphrodite, wrought mysteries with corpses, pronounced the oracle of the dead. Other corpses, zombies, worked in the cane fields, strictly supervised. To a white they seemed rather like gaunt imbeciles with their keeper. But how was it that often blacks had seen their relatives buried, only to find them weeks later in servitude as zombies? In the criminal code Author Seabrook found the weird explanation. Such are the African intimacies that share popularity with Roman...