Word: avilion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Avilion. Bachelor White confessed recently that he could "count only seven happy years" in all his life. Yet he always believed with Arthur that mankind is "on the whole more decent than beastly." After a two-month, coast-to-coast U.S. lecture tour in late 1963, he spoke with keen pleasure of the kindliness he encountered in America. When he left Manhattan last month for a Mediterranean cruise, he planned to write a book about his U.S. odyssey, hoped soon to complete a novel about Tristan and Isolde. But for White, as for his once and future king...
...late. It was his destiny to die, or, as some say, to be carried off to Avilion, where he could wait for better days...
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