Word: palely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER-Katherine Anne Porter-Harcourt, Brace...
Last week she kept her promise. Pale Horse, Pale Rider is a collection of three short novels which belong with the best of contemporary U. S. writing in this difficult form. A distinctive book, elusive as quicksilver, it has the subtlety that has marked all Miss Porter's writing, none of the preciousness that has previously marred it. Old Mortality tells of the legend-haunted girlhood and runaway marriage of Miranda, a skinny, freckle-nosed Southern girl who is such a relief after traditional Southern belles that she is almost an achievement in herself. Noon Wine is a deceptively...
Baton Rouge. Pale Horse, Pale Rider is the second book in three weeks to come out of the new Southern literary centre at Baton Rouge, La. That eminent patron of the arts, the late Huey Long, inadvertently started a writing colony there when he imported a group of young Southern writers to give his Louisiana State University intellectual prestige to match its new buildings. Leader is Robert Penn Warren, who found time to edit a critical quarterly, The Southern Review, while writing his first novel, Night Rider (TIME, March...
...slow writing bothers her not at all: "There are too many bad books without me trying to turn out two a year." But she is working on a novel, Promised Lands, wants to write four books, one for each section of the U. S. If they live up to Pale Horse, Pale Rider, the literary colony of Baton Rouge may turn out to be far more durable and important than most of Huey Long's works...
Diplomats, nobles, ecclesiastics, ex-royalty and representatives of reigning royalty filled the stands and ramps of St. Peter's when a glittering procession moved into the Basilica. Attendants waved great ostrich-feather fans, as the frail Holy Father, deathly pale, entered seated on his high sedia gestatoria (portable throne), garbed in a vast white cope...