Word: deathe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certitudes is may also be observed in this collection of character sketches and literary criticism-not always in ways calculated to enhance his reputation for balanced judgment. Greene writes about the great dead, among them James, Conrad and Hardy, and steadily mines their graves for texts on death, damnation and moral corruption. By compulsively and compassionately visiting his own moral preoccupations upon the life and art of others, he often more truly reveals himself than his subject...
...Bible, for having spent a cloistered life rather than dying like his obscure Anglican grandfather in "the dirty upper room of a Goanese grog shop." Fidel Castro, as jungle hero, he finds sympathetic: "This man, so Pauline in his labours and in his escapes from suffering and death...
...BLACK DEATH by Philip Ziegler. 31 9 pages. John...
...BLACK DEATH: 1347 by George Deaux. 229 pages. Weybright & Talley...
...horror was too great to catch and hold with words, but a Welsh poet named Jeuan Gethin set down some measure of it: "We see death coming into our midst like black smoke, a plague which cuts off the young, a rootless phantom which has no mercy for fair countenance . . . It is seething, terrible, wherever it may come, a head that gives pain and causes a loud cry, a burden carried under the arms, a painful angry knob . . . " The phantom he described was bubonic plague, the Black Death that reached Sicily from the East in 1347 and within three years...