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Word: charon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Notes on the Demise of Charon" by Sandy Kaye has precise sounds and three minutely detailed images and is static. The short story by Mary Kaye, too highly stylized, provokes no emotions except near the very...

Author: By John H. Fincher, | Title: The Advocate | 12/5/1958 | See Source »

...Young got out, it won an accolade from T.S. Eliot: "A most delightful piece of work. I enjoyed it immensely." A bit of the original Greek retained in Young's Puddocks as well as Murray's Frogs-the croak of the frog chorus that mocks Dionysus as Charon ferries him across the Styx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Puddocks | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...into the dugouts. But he loved to go out and bet on the ponies, and though the rest of the rhymesters and paragraphers had largely disappeared from the newspapers, he kept up his occasional verse. After many of his friends had died, he wrote a characteristic verse to Charon, the boatman of the Styx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseller Revisited, Apr. 11, 1955 | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

...Flame of the Inn is dim tonight- Too many vacant chairs- The sun has lost too much of its light- Too many songs have taken flight- Too many ghosts on the stairs- Charon-here's to you-as man against man- I wish I could pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseller Revisited, Apr. 11, 1955 | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

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