Word: blixen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Silence Will Speak. Wescott describes the late Baroness Blixen-Finecke, better known as Isak Dinesen (Out of Africa, Seven Gothic Tales), as she seemed when she visited New York four years ago- already at death's door, already moth-frail like "a fever-wasted child; but her eyes as lively as the diamonds in her ears. She really did no more than haunt the dinner table." No writer could ask for a better epitaph than Wescott's use of a line from one of her own characters: "Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal...
Died. Baroness Blixen Finecke, 77, author, under the nom de plume Isak Dinesen, of gracefully ghostly short stories (Seven Gothic Tales) and a popular volume of memoirs called Out of Africa; in Rungstedlund, Denmark...
...white demigoddess to servants on her Kenya coffee plantation, Danish-born Baroness Karen Blixen once beat back two lions with a bull whip, earned the affectionate appellation "Honorable Lioness." But in 1931, when the coffee market crumbled, she returned to her native land, assumed a name now known and respected throughout the literary world-Isak Dinesen. Last week at 75, the wispy (her weight: 70 lbs.) writer was honored with a statue of herself by California Sculptor Emile Norman. Depicting a wraithlike priestess with a lion and a bird, the work evoked the pre-Mau Mau Kenya that Isak Dinesen...
...wife. Her mood-dry, elegiac, wounded yet unbleeding-strongly echoes that of the aristocratic author of the brilliant 19th century Sicilian chronicle and recent bestseller, The Leopard; this somehow befits a woman whose African nickname was "Honorable Lioness" and whose real name and title are the Baroness Karen Blixen...