Word: percivale
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In its benign manifestations, it can be outrageously comic-as in the picaresque adventures of Percival Brownlee who appears in William Faulkner's story The Bear. Exasperating to his white masters because his aspirations and talents are for preaching and conducting choirs rather than for farming, Brownlee is "freed...
In 1877, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (an uncle of the present-day Paris couturier) reported mysterious lines, or canali, linking those dark areas. By 1906, Percival Lowell, an amateur astronomer and one of the Boston Lowells (his brother Abbott Lawrence was president of Harvard, his sister was Poet...
Even the construction boom has brought its toll in dirt, noise, and the destruction of treasured landmarks and favorite spots. The good small restaurants that were the city's pride are being torn down, to be replaced by 15-minute-service counters in skyscraper basements. In the Wall Street...
Doom. And what is it? Among other things, it is a humorous evocation of the characters and the ambiance that have given baseball its mythic quality. Bernard Malamud's The Natural was a strikingly effective allegory of the baseball hero as a contemporary Sir Percival who in the end...
Melting Martian Frost. Tombaugh found that the largest crater in the best Mariner photograph is located where visual observations have spotted an oasis. Parallel markings in the southern part of the crater coincide with the position of a short canal mapped by Astronomer Percival Lowell in 1894.