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...small towns] you simply must conform ... or live like a hermit and disappoint your husband and his people...
Creeping Vines and Metaphors. Conselheiro was a genuine fanatic, a 2nd Century hermit born in the days of railroads. In his own way, Euclides da Cunha, his biographer, was as fanatical. Rebellion in the Backlands is Brazil's great classic, 476 pages of prose, thick as the jungles of Matto Grosso, through which (even in translation) a North American must hack his way blindly, barely able to make out the thread of history in the overhanging metaphors and the creeping vines of Da Cunha's philosophizing. Conselheiro's teachings soon led to open revolt, in which...
First to Go In. The first Underwood in Korea (while it was still the Hermit Kingdom) was Grandfather Horace Grant Underwood, who went there as Korea's first Protestant missionary in 1885. Though Seoul was swarming with cholera (Koreans call it "the rat in the stomach disease") old Dr. Underwood used to stride about unscathed in his black buttoned-up coat and white tie. He was extremely proud of the fact that he was the only ordained Calvinist in the city. Later he married a medical missionary, Lillias Horton, who became physician to Korea's Queen Min. Soon...
Died. Piet Mondrian (Pieter Cornells Mondriaan), 71, Holland-born dean of rectilinear abstract painters; in Manhattan. The gentle, jazz-and-orange-loving hermit, heavily influenced by Pablo Picasso, always said that regular curves made him nervous; deplored the necessary circularity of records and oranges...
...Flustering Fourth Platoon is now the proud poppa of a baby girl born on May 9th. So now we can smoke again . . . George Kalionzes's wife wrote to him at last so he promises to not grow a beard to match that moustache and he will not become a hermit . . . The Navy is going to fix up Bernard Bob with a special set of flags to work right form his seat in Code so he won't have to go up to the rostrum between classes . . . The Navy Wives again urge the Lads to trip the light fantastic...