Word: serpent
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...addition to teaching, Morrison has written several books of verse: "the Serpent in the Could" (1931), "Notes on Death and Life" (1935), "The Devious Way" (1944), and "The Dream of Alcestis" (1950); and three novels: "The Stones of House" (1953), "To Make a World" (1957), and "The Whole Creation" (1962). He has also translated and edited "The Portable Chaucer" (1949) and edited "Five Kinds of Writing...
...SERPENT AND THE ROPE (407 pp.) -Raja Rao-Pantheon...
Author Rao's credentials are impressive. André Malraux sought him out as a cicerone for a tour of India; Lawrence Durrell has pronounced The Serpent a work "by which an age can measure itself"; and E. M. Forster, whose Passage to India remains the classic of Anglo-Indian intellectual commerce, has praised Rao's Kan-thapura (not yet published in the U.S.) as perhaps the best novel in English to come out of India...
...looking like the $1,000,000 she gets these days for a movie, Elizabeth Taylor, 30, arrived in London with Companion Richard Burton to brave the same sort of puree mongole smog that nearly did her in last year. While a phalanx of huskies kept photographers at bay, the Serpent of the Nile and Thames skittered into a blue...
Long Day's Journey into Night. Eugene O'Neill's play, one of the greatest of the century, describes his own family in terms of a serpent that eats its own tail, each member eating and being eaten at the same time. Principals are Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards Jr. and Dean Stockwell...