Word: flee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like most of his literary contemporaries, Stevenson did his utmost to escape from ordinary, everyday life. But he was too little of an esthete to flee into the world of art-for-art's-sake, too much of a romantic to want the grim, bare world of the French realists-a world whose fiction he described, in a rare burst of savagery, as "that meat-market of middle-aged sensuality." After a spell of youthful Bohemianism, Stevenson dropped anchor in his own fair harbor-the world of Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The New Arabian Nights...
...Street, the quarter's center, only a few shops were open. Life in the Jewish quarter had ground to a shuddering halt as Arab violence flared up at the announcement of Palestine's partition. Those Jews whom we did see clung closely to their doorsteps, ready to flee inside at the slight est warning. The only Jew oblivious to it all was a turbaned Moorish Jew, who sat silently leaning against a building in the sun begging for baksheesh...
These Britons write about the war-perhaps with too much conventionality and decorjum, but at least they don't flee, like so many American fictioneers, from the major experience of the age. And while not so witty or brash or technically, ambidextrous as some of the American advance guardists, the British don't trifle with literary fads; they are in too deep a mess to be able to fool with that sort of thing, and they know...
During these last days the moment came that he had always hoped for. The result was one of the best known hymns in the English language: Abide with me! Fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens: Lord, with me abide! When other helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, 0 abide with...
Hold Thou Thy Cross before my closing eyes; Shine through the gloom, and point me to the skies; Heaven's morning breaks, and earth's vain shadows flee: In life, in death, 0 Lord, abide with...