Word: fragmentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...merely demonstrated the half-truth of a later dictum that "all authors are musical-boxes which play a limited number of tunes." And yet. at the time of his death he was, like Dickens with Edwin Drood and Stevenson with Weir of Hermiston, midway through what remained a brilliant fragment-Denis Duval, Dickens considered it "the best of all his works...
...last of the three plays, On Baile's Strand, is a heroic tragedy based on a legend about Cuchulain, a sort of Irish Achilles. The legend fragment which the play dramatizes depicts warrior-king Cuchulain reluctantly submitting to the rule of the more civilized High King Conchubar, only to be forced into a battle in which he kills...
...rather ridiculous to hear Washington-" He was interrupted by a cry of warning. He squinted at the sky, his shoulders hunched instinctively and he dived for shelter, suddenly heedless of any TV audience as he muttered in disgust: "Here comes a damn plane!" The interruption made a vivid TV fragment this week in Algeria Aflame, an hour-long CBS report that brought home, with the immediacy of an air raid, the war between the French and the Moslem nationalists...
...Bellante set workmen to digging inside the grotto of Tiberius (who reigned from 14 A.D. to 37 A.D.), 90-ft.-deep cavern hard by the site of Tiberius' famed Villa Spelunca (Cave Villa).* Beneath six inches of limy earth, one of Bellante's men struck a marble fragment shaped like the calf of a human leg, about twice lifesize. The diggers dug on to more than 400 pieces of polished marble...
...mine," he said. "Of course, it's only a fragment. It's an elegy to Henry Miller." I said I had to go. "Of course," he replied. "Come back any time. I'm always here, on the beach. If I'm not at school...