Word: mohicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theme is most explicitly stated in The Last Mohican, a wry and witty fable about a serious-minded student named Fidelman who goes to Italy to write a monograph on Giotto. He scarcely steps from his train in Rome before his personal Old Man of the Sea latches onto him: one Shimon Susskind, a slat-thin Jewish refugee from, of all places, Israel ("The desert air makes me constipated...
...barefoot even on ice, sleeping on hearths or in hollow logs, and sharing what little he had with white folks, Indians and the birds of the air. Before he died at 70, near Ft. Wayne, Ind., his fame was already spreading beyond the banks of the Maumee and the Mohican where, says Vachel Lindsay...
...York harbor last week, a U.S. Customs officer briskly climbed aboard the S.S. Mohican, a World War II Liberty ship, as she lay at anchor. The officer informed the captain that the ship was being seized by the U.S. Government. His reason: the U.S. ship, in violation of a 1916 law, was being operated by an alien owner, Stavros Niarchos, a Greek who had bought her as war surplus through U.S. nationals as dummies...