Word: pilgrims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thousands at Provincetown, on Cape Cod, there was no surprise, for the voyage of Mayflower II had for months been heralded in the land till many New Englanders grew bored or cynical. Yet, as Mayflower II picked up her mooring, even the cynics forgot their suspicions, jumped into their Pilgrim and Indian costumes and joined the celebration...
Once moored, Mayflower II stayed at Provincetown for only a brief ceremony, next morning set sail westward to Plymouth, where the townspeople, long accustomed to tourism, turned out (in Pilgrim costume) to give the ship and crew the publicity-tuned kind of welcome that made the proud Provincetown folk bitter. From Oklahoma came 40 genuine Indians led by former New York Yankee Pitcher Allie Reynolds (also in the group: part-time Indian Will Rogers Jr.); the local Mayflower Transit Co. pulled its vans into camera range; an airplane zoomed overhead trailing a banner exhorting the Pilgrims to dine...
...woody top of Mount Koya, south of Osaka in Japan, are scores of ancient temples and pilgrim hostels that make up the spiritual center of the influential Buddhist sect called Shingon-shu. Last week the shaven-pated monks of Shingon-shu climbed out of their black robes into a strange new garb called a baseball uniform, began pitching a stitched leather ball around and swinging at it with a wooden club called...
...such pilgrim-the book's narrator -is Andrew Colquhoun, a youngish Scots drifter eager to pluck the heart from Clausen's mystery, write his biography and perhaps thereby come to terms with his own restless nature. Also on the way to Clausen is an odd trio of characters: a tropical tycoon named Zuckermann, who is playing the white man's last rubber in the game of enlightened self-interest; his beautiful and enigmatic secretary. Gemma; and his top research man, a brilliant mixed-blood scientist who secretly aspires to be "a Napoleon of the black masses...
Died. Joyce Cary, 68, Anglo-Irish novelist (Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim) whose tenth novel, The Horse's Mouth, written when he was 54, first brought him broad recognition as a major writer, who worked to the end despite a rare, fatal nerve disease which struck (1954) and progressively paralyzed him; in Oxford, England. Propped up in his wheelchair or bed, with his arm supported by a rope, his pen tied to his hand, he faced death calmly, worked until his limbs were useless, then dictated until his power of speech was gone...