Word: hermits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some accounts credit St. Thomas with converting Maloula to Christianity. Others ascribe the conversion to a passing hermit, a fervent Christian who was horrified to discover lascivious goings-on at a Roman bath in the village and cursed the place, thereby causing the bath to collapse over the heads of the libidinous bathers. A church now stands on the site of the baths...
Samaras is not the most easily approachable of men. His efforts seem governed by Gide's famous plea, "Do not understand me too quickly." Compared with many other New York artists his age (36), he is almost a hermit. He shuns the art-world circuit, living and working in a cluttered container of a brownstone apartment in Manhattan which, in its contents, resembles one of his own boxes. An ironic reclusiveness directs his talk. Conversations are apt to falter and go brown under that sharp gaze. This is part of a strategy common to Samaras' art as well...
...WORDEN is bedded, he blacks out and wakes beneath a gallows. The rest of the journey is taken up with his discovery of the truth surrounding that mysterious experience. Through the stories of the other fabulous figures he meets--an erudite aristocrat-turned gypsy, a rational skeptic, a hermit and exorcist, a cabalist--he comes to recognize the silliness of most taboos and their religious rationales. And he returns to search for the sisters...
...industrious writer: at 54, he has turned out 40 books, not counting revisions or new collections. He likes to travel but has no hobbies. Böll was on his way to Israel when he heard of his prize. He expressed the usual joy and surprise, though only a hermit could not have heard the rumors that swirl like falling leaves each autumn. Shortly afterward, his son Vinzent ungraciously announced that, indeed, his father had been expecting the award. What the young man apparently did not realize was how many other writers were also on tiptoe...
...great cross-section of occupations is represented as well; antique dealer, an egg salesman, a grocery store owner, a hermit from the backwoods, a clown, a few auto mechanics, a few hell's angels, ballet dancers, policemen, the works. The photographers have haunted such honky tonk spots as Revere and Nantasket Beach, and Paragon Park. They have sunk into the ghettoes, slunk into back stage dressing rooms, and escaped into meat markets, barber shops, auction barns, trailer parks, fields and kitchens, as well as their friends' homes...