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Word: troubadourish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1955-1955
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...Scotch commerce), spends hours doting on a road runner bird (symbol of the Old Spanish Southwest) in the pet department at Woolworth's (23rd Street branch). She opens her door to a bevy of characters as split-and-mixed as herself; they spin poetic stories in a troubadourish vein, seek peace and unity in the heart of a whirl of fantasy. In a Farther Country fades out with Marietta and one of her wacky acquaintances revolving in a dream world to the accompaniment of a fancy Goyen epitaph: "Her body became like a long yellow stalk, going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seed in Her Hair | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

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