Word: grottos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left our village at dusk and gone to the foot of a goat path. After an exchange of passwords, a new guard was assigned to lead us straight up the rocks beside a waterfall deep into a fissure in the towering limestone crag. Midway up we entered a vast grotto with an underground mountain lake and turned back, panting, to look down upon the majestic moonlit landscape...
...bugles blowing in the Yard and all those guys marching around, that I can get used to. But for years now when they put out a Poon, it came out one-at-a-time, sorta easy like, none of this helter-skelter, war production stuff from the Bow Street grotto, no siree...
...Lady. Bernadette Soubirous was born on a Jan. 7, which was the birth date also of Jeanne d'Arc. On Feb. 11, 1858, a backward, asthmatic girl of 14, she beheld, in a swine-fouled little grotto near Lourdes, a dainty, gay and ineffably dressed young lady who talked and gestured with her in the silence of her enchanted heart. During the next few weeks Bernadette saw her many times, though the lady was invisible to the increasing hundreds (Bernadette had talked) who gathered at the grotto...
...less instructive is what happened afterward. Little by little the wild beast captured and institutionalized itself. In the grotto a sentimental statue stood in for Bernadette's lady; a great church improved the living stone of the mountainside; the healing virtues which her spring retained were put to the service of the great institutions which had opposed them...
...full weight of disease and death, and is reborn into the mysteries of his childhood. As Lafite, a cancer pregnant in his throat and his weary mind working at its poor height, is drawn, hypnotically, nearer & nearer the iron grille which now shields the wet stones of the grotto, Werfel ceases to be the reverent and grateful craftsman. He becomes, for a few pages, one of the best things a man without genius or sainthood may hope to become: a great artist, communicating nobly with the other Hyacinthe de Lafites of his time...