Word: footless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...periodic prose, reminiscent of the 19th century histories of Prescott and Parkman, is at its most eloquent during these confrontations of culture. Horgan views the rebel Martinez as a tragic figure, lost "in the ashes of the old consuming conflict, in the pathos of learned agonies spent in a footless cause." The author also brings rich life to less dramatic episodes: his long, detailed accounts of the journeys over trackless desert and plateau develop a hypnotic rhythm of their own. Even minor ecclesiastical skirmishes are brilliantly employed-Lamy's exasperation with Vatican bureaucracy simultaneously reveals...
...side. "Doves were his specialty, and when his sight began to fail, he would ask me to finish the pictures where special detail was needed-that was always the doves' feet. I painted so many doves' feet that all my doves, later on, have been footless. After so many feet, I developed an aversion to them...