Word: pythian
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...Delphi he finds a creature like himself-a being cursed by the old gods as he has been cursed by the new. She is an aged Pythian priestess who lives on a mountainside with only goats and her idiot son for company. The Wanderer asks the priestess for guidance, and her narrative is the main part of the book. Like most allegories, the story suffers from the sometimes near-ludicrous clash of the concrete and the symbolic. It is a measure of Novelist Lagerkvist's great narrative powers that he manages to keep his story alive in the strange...
...skill and tact. But the last two intellectuals whom he photographed gave him a surprise. At the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer (posing for Eisie for the sixth time) wrote in the memento book a quotation in Greek from Pindar's Third Pythian Ode: "Dear Soul, do not pursue with too much zeal immortal life, but first exhaust the practical mechanics of living." Next day, at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin North in Wisconsin, the controversial architect took one look at Oppenheimer's inscription, snorted and wrote: "Take the science of life...
...fiddlers who ever lived, he ignored the classic repertory with a persistence that drove critics to fury. He liked to offer his own grand fantasia on Yankee Doodle, playing with a rapt expression ''as though," remarked one critic, "he were wrestling with the inward spasms of a Pythian frenzy." He liked to astound his audiences by performing on all four strings at once, a trick he managed with the aid of a special flat-topped bridge...
...immediately started tearing down old buildings to make room for a 20-story hospital, the only State institution where Louisiana citizens may get all types of free medical care. While reconstruction progressed, patients had to be bedded in any available shelter. For Charity's Negroes, the old Negro Pythian Temple proved handiest...
...Jack-engineering) until they met lovely artist Molly Prescott. To her, Tom became engaged. Then the War broke. Under fire Tom discovered Molly's picture in Jack's tunic pocket-("Keep me with you, always, and I'll try to keep you safe"). Renouncing all Pythian affection Tom nearly slugged Jack, refused henceforth to speak to him. When Jack was wounded in the Big Drive, Tom was mortally injured in the act of rescuing him. Jack returned to Molly, happy that Tom had died forgiving him. The Author. Arthur Hamilton Gibbs' latest novel, like all save...