Word: donkey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First published in England 25 years ago, Son of Dust is laced with the sort of distinctive, evocative writing that has marked Author Prescott's more ambitious and accomplished works, e.g.,, Mary Tudor (TIME, Nov. 23, 1953) and Man on a Donkey (TIME, Sept. 22, 1952). But it is marred by a preening pedantry that too often finds Fulcun leaning on his quillons, sitting on a faldstool, glancing out of a dorter window or camping out on his alod-without benefit of definitions...
...recién casado (Diary of a Newlywed Poet), one of his finest works. That same productive year (1917) he published his most famous book, Platero y Yo (Silvery and I), a series of prose-poems telling of his walks in town and country with an amiable, silver-grey donkey. It is one of the great classics of modern Spanish literature, required reading for schoolchildren all over Latin America...
...blonde-brunette sister team, and Singer Carla Boni and the Angelini Orchestra, the tunes were the kind that might be danced to in any cantina, whistled by any office boy. But the lyrics were different. Sang the Fasano sisters to a one-step that sounded something like The Donkey Serenade...
...scene of Galatolo's murder was the dead man's weeping son. Suspiciously the police asked how he had learned about the crime so quickly. Said the boy contemptuously: "Why, the whole of Palermo knows Angelo Galatolo is dead, shot while driving a borrowed donkey cart. It's only the police who are surprised...
...carny world, says Sociologist Krassowski, is a tempting one: "You work like a wild donkey, you don't sleep and you lose weight. You knock the tents down and put them up and knock them down again. But I'm a carny now. In my stand, I watch the customers come in and I find myself thinking: "Poor people, poor people. They cannot do as they please...