Word: sibyl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SIBYL O. SAUNDERS...
...SIBYL (154 pp.)-Pär Lagerkvist -Random House...
Signs & Wonders. Those adept at deciphering the message in a parable will be happy to wrest their own truth from The Sibyl. The supporting cast of human symbols is not hard to identify: there are the Pythia's pious, humble parents; the lowly, kindly oracle servant ("little friend of god and man"); the mean old spy who cares nothing for god but only for his temple. These are, for good or ill, like unto other men. But the Pythia and the Wanderer are set apart because they have been touched by God; he works on them not merely "signs...
Wilder regarded Miss Sitwell as a "Sibyl of archaic tradition," and felt that she speaks like Atropos, one of the three Fates. He compared her treatment of the catastrophies of man to that of Jeffers, and felt that she was "a modern revelation of St. John...
Died. Robert Woodward Hathaway, 67, American-born Seigneur of Sark, 2-sq.-mile, semifeudal English Channel island; of thrombosis; in Sark. Hathaway acquired his title when he married the Dame de Sark, Mrs. Sibyl Collings Beaumont, in 1929, worked with her to keep the island and its 542 inhabitants just as they had been when Sark was created as a seigneury by Queen Elizabeth in 1565. They perpetuated the island's ban on automobiles, female dogs and homing pigeons, discouraged movies and newspapers, levied tithes of grain, sheep and wool...