Word: sibyle
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...unapproachable gods. The tangible sibyl closer to hand, is Joan Baez...
...Curse. In Lagerkvist's The Sibyl, Wandering Jew Ahasuerus also appeared, questioning an old priestess at Delphi about the meaning of the curse upon...
...suffered from the Christian God. told him: "Through his curse you live a life with god . . . Perhaps one day he will bless you instead of cursing you. But whatever you may do, your fate will be forever bound up with god, your soul forever filled with god." The sibyl's prophecy is fulfilled in Lagerkvist's new book, in which god finally allows Ahasuerus to die. Like Lagerkvist's other novels, this is written in the prose of parables, plain and simple, pared to the essential scene and angle like a painting by Giotto, held like...
...each woman is already under a severe strain. Old Mrs. Moore's is the approach of death and the retreat of God; Miss Quested's is an incomprehension of love. When the heat, the smells, and the frightening echoes turn Mrs. Moore abruptly into a benumbed old sibyl and induce Miss Quested to believe that Dr. Aziz has attacked her, the viewer suspects that something, perhaps the play, has been going on behind his back...
Morton won his first National in 1933, came to earn $2,400 for handling a winning dog in a trial, developed champions that made as much as $14,000 in stud fees at $200 a pairing. By 1948 Morton and his wife Sibyl had saved up enough money to buy a 7,500-acre cotton and cattle plantation outside of Selma...