Word: firelit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hypnotic Chorus resumes; the camera pans to the English camp and strolls, as if it were the wandering King himself, among the firelit tents...
...golden rooms were the firelit caves of men in the vast darkness of prehistoric night. When Harg discovered that by rubbing two sticks together he could make fire, he rose to his feet, trembling, and slipped away into the dusk. He thought: "You are the only one in the world who can make fire...
...live first in England and then in the Eternal City. From time to time Santayana's books appeared, modulated and civilized, never quite sustaining the masterpiece proportions of their best contributions, never lacking passages of extraordinary penetration, and always written in prose as dusky and subdued as the firelit Harvard study he describes. The first of his books to reach a big U.S. audience was The Last Puritan in 1936. It was far less important and far more difficult than Persons and Places. For the complexities of Latin American politics and cultural relations have cleared enough to show...