Word: tantalus
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...curse of Tantalus haunted their Romantic love. As Amy Lowell explains, "She kept Keats in a burning agitation of desire which, under the circumstances, she was powerless to gratify." Yet she waited out the long days of his illness, lonely in her cold virginity, never regarding the torment of delirious notes in which he accused her of unfaithfulness. She kept faith to the dying poet long after he coughed out his last feeble breath, holding her oval white carnelian in his hand. She had understood his request that her last letter be laid in his coffin. He died. "All that...
...describing a family anniversary, Novelist Van Ammers-Kuller in her feminist vein gets almost committee-womanish. She started to write before she was 20, quit when she married, began again when her two boys were safe in school, her husband director of the Leyden gas works. Other translated books: Tantalus, The House of Joy, Jenny Heysten's Career...
...sons were in school. When her husband became director of the Leyden gas works she began to write again. Charming, accomplished linguist, learned in stage lore, she wrote plays, novels, about actresses. Visiting the U. S. in 1925 she saw enough to write of U. S. family life in Tantalus. Other books in translation: The House of Joy, The Rebel Generation...
...published the following works, including "Riddles of the Sphinx", "Plato or Protagoras?", "Humanism", and "Tantalus, or the Future of Man", He is a member of the Royal Society...
...small end of the drinking horn--very dry, for it is far from the realms of possibility that the Prohibition elders will allow their erring brethren the excuse for any such delightful legalistic temporizing. Prohibition has come, prohibition shall stay; and the joke is on the American Tantalus...