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...Died. Hermit, about 25, spotted hyena of the Washington, D. C., Zoo. During the entire 12 years of his captivity, he crouched in his black, airless den, fought attendants who tried to drag...
Gasquet Bible. St. Jerome (A.D. 340-420) translated the Old Testament not from the Greek Septuagint but from the Hebrew original; the New Testament he took from its original Greek. In Bethlehem, where he had journeyed from Rome, he lived like a hermit while he worked. His translation gradually became recognized by the early Church with a sanction more universal than that bestowed upon any of the other Latin scriptures, which were, for the most part, localized and incomplete...
AUBREY BEARDSLEY-Haldane MacFall -Simon & Schuster ($6). Some 30 years ago a lanky fop, carrying a pair of lemon-kid gloves, his hair falling about his ears like a hermit's, attended an ironic ceremony in a London church. The occasion was the unveiling of a bust of John Keats; after it was over, Aubrey Beardsley ". . . broke away from the throng, and, hurrying across the graveyard, stumbled and lurched awkwardly over the green mounds of the sleeping dead." It was an ironic ceremony because Artist Beardsley, as Poet Keats had done, was to go southward and die of consumption...
...paintings that won no awards, there were many beneath which continuously gathered puzzled or admiring faces. Zuloaga, Spanish historian of portraiture, had done "The Hermit," an old man whose great serious eyes were bent downward upon a melancholy vision of glory. There was the cold ruin of "Winter in Artois" by D. Y. Cameron of England. For a whole afternoon one man peered at the blurred enchantment of "Pasture," shadowy trees and pale waving hills, by Rudolph Kremlicka, a Czechoslovakian...
...quaint statement, however, is that this modern hermit avows his belief in the simple life, and thinks that Americans tend to "overdo things." There might be those who overdo the critical faculty to the extent of saying that one day atop a flag-pole is more than enough, and that a week spent in such a location savors in itself of overdoing things. Mr. Kelley, however, that shall be his title until his canonization upon the stage,--does not consider his martyrdom in such a light. He denies any attempt to reap publicity, swearing his simple intention of showing mankind...