Word: ld
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Joris-Karl Huysmans, A Rebours, Ld...
...that had not been sold, but embarrassed Zone officials decided to print more, Harris' saturate dreams of the market philatelic and ruin treasure. They were taking their cue from one time Postmaster General J. Edward Day, who had highhandedly ordered a flood of deliberately misprinted Dag HammarskjÖld commemoratives in order to devaluate an accidental misprint (TIME...
Hammarskjöld's father, Hjalmar, Sweden's Prime Minister from 1914 to 1917, was one of his nation's most hated men. Vilified by socialists and liberals, accused of being pro-German, nicknamed "Hungerskjöld" during Sweden's food shortage, Hjalmar left office a bitter man, aloof, isolated, cold...
Though he describes Hammarskjöld as being thoroughly masculine, Stolpe adds: "Yet I sometimes felt that for all his polite talk at parties he never visually discriminated between a shapely woman and, say, a sofa or a chair." Stolpe is convinced that Hammarskjöld remained a celibate all his life, and that his failure to establish an emotionally realistic relationship with women forced his gradual retreat into his inner world...
Toward the end, Stolpe believes, Hammarskjöld had become a fully realized mystic and had begun to turn inside and to look realistically at the problems of loneliness-of the lonely body, too, as he showed in a wryly touching little verse...