Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between times he wrote socialist tomes (War By Revolution). This year he published an Upton Sinclairish first novel, No Man Is An Island, whose title came from the same John Donne sermon as Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. He wants to write more novels, but "if you're asked by a Prime Minister and a friend to take on a job, the novels can wait...
...academic. Honorable mentions included Samuel Rosenberg's geometric portrait of Israel; O. Louis Guglielmi's The River, featuring hind views of three girls looking at the water, and The Quarantined Citadel, by onetime Etonian Philip Evergood. Evergood describes Citadel as "a vicious painting which represents an imaginary island where military aggressors are dumped so that they can play...
...world with a bull-like roar and the sound of breaking china. Bearded, massive, gaunt, propelling himself vigorously on heavy crutches like a "maimed Berserk," Henley made a spectacular impression. Young Robert Louis Stevenson instantly selected him as model for the one-legged pirate Long John Silver in Treasure Island...
Holy Serpents! Backed by the blessings of the gods and the winds of the spring equinox, the Argonauts set sail. On the Island of Lemnos, which was peopled solely by women, the Argonauts generously stopped off to help out with the spring sowing. Nine months later, 200 children were born on Lemnos, of whom no less than 60 were said to be the spitting image of Hercules...
...Island of Samothrace, the Argonauts were initiated into the sacred mysteries. The Goddess of All Being mated with the Serpent Priapus, and was delivered of a bull. Then the sacred nymphs leapt on the Argonauts and scratched and bit them until even Hercules passed out. Thereafter, the Argonauts glowed with "a faint nimbus of light...