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Durrell loves the poetic effusion, what he calls "romancing"-but in an amiable way, like a man on his third drink who suddenly falls in love with a phrase. Some times he treats the past with a lovely disrespect. At the catacombs in Syracuse, 'there was an unhealthy-looking monk on duty at the picture-postcard stall. He looked as if he had just been disinterred himself." As for the catacombs, "a coal mine would have offered the same spectacle, really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bus Stops | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

Christian tradition holds that Christ is the second Person of the Trinity, who became God in human flesh. The seven theologians consider this belief "a mythological or poetic way of expressing [Jesus'] significance for us," not literal truth. The old doctrine was formulated to express faith in Jesus within a Greco-Roman culture, the authors contend, but in modern times it just will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Was Jesus Merely Man? | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

Died. Loren Corey Eiseley, 69, maverick anthropologist, educator and author (The Immense Journey, Darwin's Century); of cardiac arrest; in Philadelphia. Eiseley taught for 30 years at the University of Pennsylvania, but his poetic writing, which bridged the gap between art and science, won him a wide audience outside the scholarly world. Although reconciled to the fact that "there is but one way into the future: the technological way," Eiseley's lyric musings harkened back to humanity's primal origins and the wisdom in fairy tales. Man's "basic and oldest characteristic," he wrote, is "that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 25, 1977 | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...upper-class St. Petersburg family, Nabokov enjoyed the benefits of wealth, position and a Western European education. English was his first language, taught by an English nanny. French and Russian were learned, as he said, "at my nurses' knees-two nurses, four knees." His mother encouraged his early poetic efforts, and his father, a distinguished liberal jurist during the final reactionary years of imperial Russia, set an example of scholarship and courage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vladimir Nabokov: 1899-1977 | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

...think, because, as a result of not taking any intelligent or demanding courses, one could stay up so late and talk so strenuously that the other person, male or female, eventually took on a soulful and appealing look, probably bordering on the catatonic. I also had a number of poetic thoughts about single-sculling, about myself single-sculling, or rather about a character like myself single-sculling (possibly in escape from a doomed, intense relationship), which I filed away in my head for use in a forthcoming novel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polonius in a single scull | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

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