Word: maiden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proper courting gift for a Dhagestan maiden was a dozen or so severed male right hands, strung on a thong. Imaginative bloodletting was much admired; Afghanistan's rulers executed prisoners by tying them across the muzzles of cannon (until Western diplomats complained of flying flesh) and the Shah of Persia delightedly invented another sort of extinction: extracting the teeth and hammering them into the skull...
...above all a supreme draftsman whose impeccable lines and fragrant colors could bubble with humor or sing with sadness. A drunkard tipsily shows off his strength by weight-lifting a barrel; two men get happily looped on a sake binge; a maiden frowns over a sour note she has struck while tuning her samisen; a ragged little urchin sits perched in a tree while majestic Mount Fuji soars incongruously in the distance. Under Hokusai's brush, Japan emerges as more than a floating land of stylized ritual: he had learned the secret he did not expect to know until...
...plank. Miraculously, he makes his way to shore, where he encounters a drug-ravaged hag who turns out to be the girl of his dreams-a former London prostitute named Joan Toast. Shaken by all this, Ebenezer innocently signs away the family property and sees the family manor Maiden, turned into a bordello. By the time he is captured by Indians, Ebenezer finally understands "the crime I stand indicted for, the crime of innocence." He abandons poetry and finishes out his life as a sot-weed factor, or tobacco peddler...
Arriving in Hollywood to collaborate with top-ranking Director George Stevens on a movie version of the life of Christ, snow-capped Poet Carl Sandburg, 82, was in an exuberant mood over his maiden effort in cinema. Some time Guitar Strummer Sandburg already has some ideas about a theme song for the four Evangelists...
Well-meaning friends are constantly introducing him to pretty young women. Fairchild usually takes them to dinner, sometimes gets so involved in a technical or musical discussion with friends that the girl is left to stare vacantly at the wall. His maiden aunt, May, in her 80s, lives with him. "I don't know why I haven't gotten married," he says. "Perhaps it's that I've been so busy. Let's hope it isn't too late. I'm not a bachelor by conviction. I think I am very unfortunate...