Word: stones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prelates halting his building programs in order to use the funds to alleviate the immediate problems of the poor. For too long the ludicrous situation has existed where the poor have trudged from country hovels and slum cellars to worship in million-dollar edifices of stone, marble and gold leaf...
...have been killed, and the heroine watches her lover fighting for his life with all the apparent pity and terror of a spectator at a close chess match. Yet in its own archetypal terms, The Red Mantle is strangely evocative, with the darkling colors of its fierce fiords and stone-strewn wastelands, its misty trysts under the midnight sun, and the dreamlike, impersonal quality of its carnage...
This passage from the ringing first novel in T. H. White's Arthurian cycle, The Once and Future King, is a shade too piteous to be in character. The Sword in the Stone comes so near to being a perfect book that the momentary faltering in Merlyn's tone is worth examining. In her compassionate biography of White, Author Sylvia Townsend Warner suggests that it was White himself who missed his love, who lay at night listening to the roar of his veins, and who swallowed great draughts of learning as a painkiller...
...never met him, overstates his seeming ease of production; in her portrait, he is an amiable but absent-mirded fowl who every now and then discovers that he has produced an egg. At any rate, in 1938, at the age of 32, White produced The Sword in the Stone, an evocation of "the 12th century or whenever it was," written as if remembered. It was without much question the best book for a twelve-year-old ever written, and a haunting delight for readers of any age. Besides unfolding the entire panoply of medieval life, it was a book...
...committee is chaired by Albert M. Sacks, professor of Law. Other members are: Clark Byse, professor of Law; Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law; Louis L. Jaffe, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law; Frank I. Michelman, professor of Law; Charles R. Nesson, assistant professor of Law; Alan A. Stone '50, assistant professor of Psychiatry; and James Vorenberg '48, professor...