Word: fairhaven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Delano (a distant and Republican relative of F.D.R.'s), who spent 160 hours etching the Presidential Seal into the ivory and another 80 hours polishing it as clean as a hound's tooth. Jackie commissioned Delano for the job last summer. At that time. the townspeople of Fairhaven. Mass., presented the President with another, smaller whale's tooth, on which Delano had etched Jack's likeness. The President was so delighted with it that Jackie decided he ought to have another...
Nothing much happens in these stories, and nothing much is meant to happen. There is tension without release, motion without direction. As a mask dropper, Lowry keeps reappearing under names that are part symbol, part joke and part hoax: Sigbjørn Wilderness, Kennish Drumgold Cosnahan, Roderick McGregor Fairhaven. It would be easy to dismiss these characters as anxious bores if they were not also unholy ghosts, shadows of a perturbed spirit, "ghouls of past delirium, wounds to other souls, ghosts of actions approximating to murder, betrayals of self and I know not what, ready to leap out and destroy...