Word: ossianic
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...does it permeate his story of Don Juan? As the books' sales mount, the resistance multiplies. Three parodies of Castaneda have appeared in New York magazines and papers lately, and the critics seem to be preparing to skewer Don Juan as a kind of anthropological Ossian, the legendary third century Gaelic poet whose works James Macpherson foisted upon 18th century British readers...
...where it won an impressive 80% of Britain's viewing audience. It was co-authored by TV Scriptwriter John Elliot and Mathematician Fred Hoyle. 46. Plumian Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge and a leading proponent of the theory of the expanding universe. Hoyle finds that writing science fiction (Ossian's Ride, The Black Cloud) is a "very useful relaxation" from work on his 15-year opus on astrophysics. Readers may find both interesting and irritating some Hoylean attitudes toward the U.S. role in the West: in debates with the U.S. commanding general in Britain, his British opponents give...
Surprisingly, the poets seem to be least at ease while draped in their own literary garlands, e. e. cummings wanders through selections from his Him and Santa Claus (Caedmon) with the air of a sleepwalker groping in a murky crypt; John Masefield sibilates waveringly through his The Story of Ossian (Argo) in a reading that does nothing to relieve the poem's turgid dramatic flow. The opposite failing-a tendency to rhetoric where mere passion would do-mars Sir Ralph Richardson's swooning reading of The Poetry of Keats (Caedmon), and turns Carl Sandburg's A Lincoln...
...Desert Rats" against Rommel's troops in World War II, lives with his wife and two children in a smaller villa adjoining "Brenthurst," the palatial residence of his father and stepmother, outside Johannesburg. Harry likes fast cars and fast horses (he recently gave his father a prize colt, Ossian, which won Johannesburg's summer handicap the first time out). When Parliament is in session (Harry has succeeded to his father's old seat*), he drives the nearly 1,000 miles to Cape Town at breakneck speed...
...Middle. In Stockholm, Sweden, in the barbershop of the Grand Hotel, there was a deadly silence as three men sat side by side. On one side was British Correspondent Ossian Goulding; on the other, a German Legation attaché. In the middle was Dr. Juho Paasikivi, Finland's possible peace negotiator...