Word: saint
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George Bernard Shaw was 50 when he found an epitaph in the old churchyard of Ayot Saint Lawrence, 22 miles from London. It read: "1825-1895-Her time was short." Then & there Shaw, who intended to live to 100, decided that the quiet Hertfordshire hamlet where 70 was considered a short life would be an ideal place to spend the coming 50 years. Shaw found a house, moved in, learned to love Ayot...
...lines were written last spring when Shaw, seven years short of his target centenary and bored with old age, was to be seen stumping about Ayot Saint Lawrence with a contax camera. Neighbors watched him focus on the village show places. "That must be hard work, sir," said Postmistress Jisbella Lyth. Tiring, said Shaw. Last week the village had a chance to see Shaw's photographs. Bernard Shaw's Rhyming Picture Guide to Ayot Saint Lawrence (price one shilling)* went on sale in Mrs. Lyth's post-office shop...
Once there, he collapsed. Receiving doctors, spotting the ugly third-degree burns which covered a full three-quarters of his body, had little hope that he would ever rise again. After giving him the standard treatment, the Indian Affairs doctors shipped him off by plane to Saint Monica Hospital in Phoenix. There he was put under the care of Dr. James Whitelaw...
...five poems in the Advocate are generally superior to the prose contributions. Donald Hall's "Epithalamion" is a haunting treatment of an old theme--the marriage of opposites. "Saint-Germain-des-Pres," by Lyon Phelps, is entirely an evocation of atmosphere, and it succeeds admirably within this limited intention. Lee Austin's "Truro; 1854" and Will Morgan's "The Golden Legend" are both musical and cryptically romantic, "Cryptic" would be too mild, however, to describe Douglas Freelander's "Almyra." As far as this reader is concerned, it is 16 lines of downright obscurantism...
Breakthrough (Warner) travels with a rifle platoon of the ist Infantry Division into the Normandy invasion, the hedgerow fighting and the Saint-Lô battle that launched the Allied blitz through France. From Twelve O'Clock High it borrows the problem of the commander who cracks under the strain of identifying himself with his men; from Battleground, the familiar roster of civilian-soldier types; from Sands of Iwo Jima, the technique of intercutting its scenes liberally with real combat footage and battering its sound track with thunderous explosions...