Word: seymour
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...direction, to deal with characters who speak his own most shadowed thoughts, and to solve the snarls caused by piecemeal publication. His face, after six years of struggle, shows the pain of an artistic battle whose outcome still cannot be seen. The battle almost certainly involves the matter of Seymour's sainthood and suicide...
...evolution of Seymour into this being of almost supersensory perception is one of the more fascinating parts of J. D. Salinger's history. Seymour first appeared in the limpid, shattering, 1948 short story, A Perfect Day for Bananafish, in which he goes swimming with a little girl on a Florida beach and, overcome by her innocence, swallows too much sublimity (or, one guesses later, too much despair). He returns to his hotel room, where his wife has been gabbling on the phone to her mother, and shoots himself through the head. Reasons for the cryptic suicide were suggested...
...rule of law world-wide as man's best hope for peace but only after bitter argument about how much surrender of U.S. sovereignty was required. Last week there seemed little dissent from the idea. In his keynote speech, the association's outgoing president, Whitney North Seymour, said flatly: "Most of us realize that anything like a durable peace will require increased reliance on international law and institu tions to apply it. Our Committee on World Peace Through Law is no egghead concept, no public relations invention. It presses toward a basic goal always close to the hearts...
...live. Each year the Chincoteague volunteer firemen round up the ponies, swim them to their island and sell the foals. Paul Beebe (David Ladd). a spratling who lives on Chincoteague with his sister Maureen (Pam Smith) and a couple of story book grandparents (Arthur O'Connell and Anne Seymour), is desperate to own one of the wild ponies, a sorrel mare named, as horses in all properly run children's movies should be, The Phantom...
...trading post at Ehrenberg, a riverside site he named for a family friend. Mike opened a bigger store in Phoenix in 1870, sold out to establish another in Prescott; at one time or another, there have been Goldwater trading posts in such boom-or-bust settlements as Tombstone, Seymour and Bisbee, where the town's first lynch mob stopped at Mike's emporium to borrow a suitable length of rope. He retired to California in 1885, leaving the stores to his three sons, Morris, Henry and Baron...