Word: pilgrim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since the Pilgrim Fathers fell first on their knees and then on the aborigines, the American Indian has been pictured not only as a shiftless ne'er-do-well but as a decadent, dying race. Many a generation of U. S. schoolboys has been taught a stern pride in the taking off of such die-hards as Rhode Island's King Philip...
...Pilgrim Hawk is as good as anyone need hope. It is a superbly turned specimen of that long-short form which Story Editor Whit Burnett likes to call The Novella. "Simple" only in profile and in the manner of its telling, the tale has symbolic and psychological structures that are no simpler than the internal cross-flickerings of a poem...
...PILGRIM HAWK-Glenway Westcott-Harper...
...Glenway Wescott of Wisconsin had lived in France for four years, was one of America's two or three most sensitive stylists and most promising novelists. The Pilgrim Hawk is his first volume of fiction since that year. It marks the end of several paralyzed years during which, work as he might, Wescott was unable to write novels at all. Says he now, "I have a great many stories to tell. If this simple story is as good as I hope, it will be a fresh start...
Thirteen centuries ago Mohammed gave a spiritual and material boost to his native Mecca by calling upon his followers to make a pilgrimage thither at least once in their lifetimes. Pious Moslems have been making the Haj ever since, thus gaining the privilege of: 1) being called Haji (pilgrim), 2) wearing green turbans, 3) dyeing their beards red with pounded hennaleaves...