Word: dervishness
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...Themes. In the final dervish week it was Humphrey who covered the most territory and made the most political mileage. Traveling in a rented bus, he drove furiously across rolling dairyland and rustic wheat country, punching endlessly at two themes: Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson's hated farm program, and Jack Kennedy's early support of that program. Local lieutenants of Missouri's Stuart Symington-whose strategy calls for staying out of primaries-publicly threw their support to Humphrey. Mildly anti-Catholic ads were distributed to 350 Wisconsin weeklies (planted by the unofficial Square Deal for Humphrey Committee...
...dervish," says Lawrence Durrell...
...description of his prose and his life, though scarcely of the man. At 48, Durrell is a short (5 ft. 3½ in.), chunky (145 Ibs.) man with clear blue eyes, thick blond-grey hair and a blunt face. Though his forebears were Irish Protestants, Durrell began his whirling-dervish life in India, where his engineer father helped build the Darjeeling Railway and died when Larry was 17. Recalls Durrell: "We lived the life which Kipling romanticized in Kim. All day long, processions of lamas passed my school whirling prayer wheels...
Stony-broke and close to hunger, he trusted his dervish genius to see him through. Sometimes typing "a slab of 10,000 words every two days," Durrell reeled off his tetralogy at an astonishing clip: Justine (about four months), Balthazar (six weeks), Mount olive (two months), Clea (seven weeks). His major defect, he feels, is overwriting, a prose style that is "too juicy...
Refuge from Life. Within a week Eleanor is thinking of the haunted house as a refuge from her hated life. She gradually gives up her fears, her fight for sanity, puts out welcoming arms to the madness that embraces her. She dances through the house like a dervish at night, comes close to what seems happy suicide. By this time Dr. Montague and the others insist on sending her home, and Eleanor's life ends in one of those terrible scenes of mental horror that Author Jackson knows so well how to contrive. The difficulty is that the story...