Word: martyrdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Except for this novelty, all the period's literary conventions are present. Crabbe's heterodoxy is an "alabaster" youth named Kemp, as "pure as a moonstone," whose hair had turned white the month after he was sent down from Oxford (for an unspecified offense). Reduced to the martyrdom of earning his keep as a telegraph messenger, Kemp goes blind. Crabbe installs the miserable stripling in his rooms, fills out his "exquisitely pale" skeleton with Bovril...
...middle-aged lawyer lecher named Komarovsky. The characters are easily seen as symbols. Komarovsky plainly stands for the corruption of the old Czarist regime, while Lara may be Mary Magdalene or Russia herself. And what of Yurii Zhivago? He too stands for Russia. He also stands for martyrdom (Critic Edmund Wilson notes that Yurii means George and perhaps suggests St. George, martyred under Diocletian). Above all, Zhivago is Christlike in his suffering and in his promise of life; his story is a modern passion...
Died. Henri Béraud, 73, French writer, toxic reactionary, anti-democrat, antiMason, anti-Semite, Anglophobe, 1922 winner of the Prix Goncourt for The Martyrdom of the Obese, a novel; on the island of Ile de Ré, France. Author of a 1935 essay entitled Should England Be Reduced to Slavery?* Béraud was a principal contributor to the mixed-up weekly newspaper Gringoire, went right on pouring out his enmity toward both Britain and the Free French-as well as the Nazis -during World War II. Tried after the liberation for collaborating in word if not in deed...
...occupation forces withdraw from Jordan, Lebanon, Aden, Oman, Algeria and the entire Arab world." In Damascus, the Nasser-controlled newspaper Al Nasr kept up the barrage of hate: "The U.A.R. will be unable to prevent the people of Jordan from battling the loss of their independence after years of martyrdom at the hands of a king who is a deviationist and a traitor and who submerged Jordan in a wave of terror...
...oblique reference to political feuds) derived from a sketch by Leonardo da Vinci. The elephant with castle was a symbol used to depict Eleazar's slaying of the beast of King Antiochus (/ Maccabees 6:17-46), a feat of self-sacrifice interpreted as prefiguring Christ's martyrdom. But many of Vicino Orsini's fantasies remain obscure. He set out to create a garden unlike any ever seen-and he succeeded...