Word: autumns
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...furlough in the Ukraine, which is about as ironically far as the you-can't-win theme has ever been taken by a war novelist. The soldier, Andreas, is a kind of displaced poet in uniform. From the moment his leave-train begins puffing towards Przemysl one autumn day in 1943, Andreas is haunted by the irrational idea that he is a bridegroom of death being rushed into one of destiny's shotgun weddings. As the car wheels click, he blows a mental farewell kiss to a field of flowers, a scrap of music, a patch...
...ordinance, not the audience, came 4,000 whites one evening last week to hear a variety troupe one-nighting through the South with Negro Singer Nat "King" Cole featured. For the musky-voiced baritone, born Nathaniel Adams Coles in Montgomery, this was almost a home-town audience; he spiced Autumn Leaves with an extra lilt, then crooned into Little Girl. With the second chorus came pandemonium...
Died. Louis Bromfield, 59, famed, Ohio-born Pulitzer-prizewinning novelist (for Early Autumn in 1926), jack-of-all-literary-trades, and politically conservative agrarian reformer (Malabar Farm); of complications following a jaundice virus infection; in Columbus, Ohio...
...setting is a Vermont village adorned in the technicolor hues of Autumn. Harry, a stranger, is found dead at the top of the hill. The rabbit-hunting old man, the frustrated town matron, and the rebellious wife all suspect each is responsible for the evil deed himself. The first two are remorseful, the last seems pretty relieved...
...work, Graves says: "I am not so much a naturalist as some people suppose." His drawing, Loon Calling on an Autumn Lake (below), leaves little doubt that it records a scene Graves observed and pondered. But as he has brushed it in with ink, it catches overtones of the full-throated, eerie cry that summons up another world, both lonely and mysterious. For to Graves, Nature and Symbol are one when seen with the artist's inner eye. His Concentrated Pine Top (opposite), done on a vertical scroll, gives a sense of strength and detachment, and is as Oriental...