Word: paganism
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...Writers. "They have small chins and big heads and cannot win an argument." The few writers he knew who have fought back, Hecht remembered warmly. His favorite rebel: Charles (Fearless Pagan) Lederer, who came to work looking like a "decadent Huck Finn" and was in love with "the most highly paid musical comedy star in New York [Marilyn Miller]." One day she took him to lunch, read him the riot act about rising at a respectable hour and taking daily baths. "When she got done, Charlie handed her his trousers, which he had taken off during the conversation and said...
...against the sky, artist's life, nightlong arguments, more temptresses ("On the sixth day when Leah came to the studio he took her brutally in his arms. 'Damn you,' he shouted and gave her a long cruel kiss"). Last stop, the Riviera: clear sunlight, indolent and pagan bathers, the evening of life. Along the way are conducted side trips to World War I, the Spanish Civil War, marriage and the art forms of the Fauves, impressionists, cubists, Dadaists-all written in racy, journalistic prose...
...French West Africa's nearly 19 million people, nine million are Moslems, one million Christians, the rest pagan animists. The Negroes alone speak 120 different languages. Just outside the teeming modern city of Abidjan, villagers still slaughter small children and toss their disemboweled bodies into the river to make sure of a good year's fishing. Until this year, Mauritania, whose Berber people call themselves "whites" (Bidanes), felt itself too poor to have a capital of its own: it shared Saint-Louis, which was the capital of black Senegal. In Dahomey, which means "The Belly of Dan," after...
...ogre's mouth (opposite) while conversing with a white cat. Research by Italian and English scholars indicates that, far from being a surrealist chamber of horrors, the garden was originally a rather solemn effort to combine the wonders of the ancient world with figures from a pagan sacred grove. With sphinxes on either side of the entrance to give fair warning, Vicino Orsini did all he could to create the impression that some otherworldly spirit had brought the strange stone figures into existence, left no record of who the actual sculptors or stonecutters were...
...relit his pipe and turned slightly. He could see the Yard now, and what an unpleasant sight it was. Beneath him a couple appeared to be conducting some sort of pagan rite which struck Vag as being obviously suggestive...