Word: ovid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Happily, while the old hands were reworking old formulas, the year also saw a succession of unusually good first novels. Ovid Williams Pierce in The Plantation and Jefferson Young in A Good Man wrote stories about life in the South that were distinguished by grace, dignity and good writing. George Lanning joined their company with This Happy Rural Seat, a mature story about middle-aged Americans. James Baldwin became a new Negro writer to watch with Go Tell It on the Mountain, a powerfully lyrical novel about religious fervor and human isolation in Harlem...
...return of the sacred ibis to our avid avi-culturists, I have been looking for its reappearance on the Cambridge scene. Having perched so long atop the Lampoon Building without inibision, the ibis should again be visible ibjdem. Then all Cantabrigians can shout the prophotic words of the ancient Ovid, "Medio tutissimus ibis," that is, "The ibis is most safely back in our midst...
...Plantation, by Ovid Williams Pierce. A skillful story, quietly told, about a self-forgetting Southern family man (TIME, March...
...Plantation, by Ovid Williams Pierce. A skillful story, quietly told, about a self-forgetting Southern family man (TIME, March...
...Plantation, by Ovid Williams Pierce. A skillful story, quietly told, about a self-forgetting Southern family man (TIME, March...