Word: ox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wear the arctic fox you have to kill it. Wear qiviut-the underwool of the arctic ox-pulled off it like a sweater,' your coat is warm; your conscience, better...
Lawyer Reese Parmelee is rich, wellborn, intelligent, young, tall and thewed like an ox. He is fearsome in war and agile in the boudoir. He is, in fact, cast from the same heroic mold as George Washington's bronze horse, and his problems, one would think, could hardly be more trying than shooing away the pigeons of circumstance-tax collectors, importunate beauties, photographers wanting to capture his grandeur in whisky ads. Yet Parmelee broods, and it is a credit to the author that readers are persuaded to take it seriously...
...Lincoln in Levi's, and John Wayne, a smoke-wagon Siegfried, represented in different ways a more mature attempt on the part of the western hero to behave like a man. And in such pictures as John Ford's Stagecoach and William Wellman's The Ox-Bow Incident, the mythological struggle between Good and Evil was enacted on the personal plane; while in George Stevens' Shane and in Fred Zinnemann's High Noon, the western hero for the first time in movie history had to face what that struggle really means: the necessity of moral...
...Ox Plows. Graves goes one better than mere verbal theorizing-he has pictorially theorized the original tablets in collaboration with Artist James Metcalf, who engraves them in a modern version of sub-Mycenaean style. He arranges his pictures first in the order in which the Bible has them-four sequences of nine, each sequence running from right to left. Then he arranges them in what he postulates as the original order-four sequences of nine, running alternately from right to left, then left to right, the order known from the Greek as boustrophedon, "as the ox plows." For instance...
...standard an important comic if not satiric novelist. Unfortunately infatuated with detail, Powell sometimes seems to obey a new novelist's commandment to the effect that he shall not describe a character unless he describes his neighbor's wife, his manservant, his maidservant, his ox, his ass and anything that is his neighbor's. But through such means, Powell tells a story of the between wars doldrums of England in a style as quiet and sinister as a ticking time bomb...