Word: satyr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into a fearlessly candid biography of his wife. A social worker, lecturer and minor fiction writer, Edith was not (as Daudet said the wife of a writer should be) a feather bed. Petite, restless, intense, she scolded at Havelock's manners, dress, undemonstrativeness, called him a mixture of satyr and Christ, alternated between tantrums and protestations of undying love. "The worst of me is in my tongue," she reassured him, but once she kicked him in the head. He discovered strong homosexual tendencies in her. Both tried to be broadminded. ("Have a sweet time with Amy, who will...
...Greek tragedy arose out of frenzied satyr dances in honor of Dionysus. (Tragedy comes from Tragos, a goat...
Boasting, whether vain or not, comes easily to Autobiographer Powys: "I know I am not being silly or conceited when I say that in certain directions I have as powerful an imagination as Swift." He thinks he is "too much of a demented satyr and too much of a fanatical saint." He admits, however, that his enemies call him "a tiresome poseur, full of silly affectations, and a long-winded, tedious rhapsodist." Powys realizes that his literary reputation is not comparable with his brothers', Theodore and Llewellyn, comforts himself with the statement that his writing is "simply so much...
...AMBER SATYR-Roy Flannagan-Doubleday, Doran...
...Fummi, his representative in Rome, arrived at Naples to talk business, John Pierpont Morgan abandoned a special-train ride to the archaeological diggings at Pesto (the ancient Graeco-Roman city of Paestum) and thus, with his yacht-guest, the Archbishop of Canterbury, missed the unearthing of a fine bronze satyr...