Word: thornes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the pieces are not stories at all but evocative, friezelike sketches that try to catch a country scene or a moment of action. In The First Thorn the author catches a whole life in a few pages. The impulsive daughter of a rich landowner revels in the secure and happy rituals of her twelfth birthday until, touched by sudden pity, she offers charity to derelict ex-convicts. Seared by the disapproval of her family and friends, she briefly weeps, in the half-grown-up awareness that compassion will always isolate her from the complacent society she belongs...
...early '50s, some British poets announced themselves as The Movement, a loose flock of low-flying larks (among them Donald Davie, Thorn Gunn, Kingsley Amis, John Wain) who sang in the same octave quietly. They favored a formal elegance, but at the same time retained the note of natural speech, the "neutral tone" of voice in which the British customarily discuss love, death and the weather...
...Open War." Churches drowned out Socialist rallies by loudly ringing their bells for three hours at a stretch. On the narrow streets of Pawla, Labor Party youths and Young Christian workers fought pitched battles with stones and wine bottles. Posters proclaimed: "Every vote for Mintoff is another thorn in the Sacred Heart of Jesus." Maltese spinsters paraded in a pilgrimage of prayer for his defeat, wearing the faldetta, the traditional national headdress. Concluded an English observer: "This is open...
Playing opposite Thorn Babe, however, is a demanding assignment for anyone. Praising this versatile actor's performances can become monotonous, but there seems little he cannot do magnificently. Babe made the good pastor ingenuous without making him stupid, introspective but not self-centered. And Babe did not have to salvage the production single-handedly...
...honor of the occasion, Mrs. Hilles planted a pycorantha (flaming thorn) bush in the garden. Mildred P. Sherman, Dean of College Relations; Mrs. Jordan; and Mr. and Mrs. Carleton Granberry, the architects who designed the buildings, each provided a shovelful of dirt...