Word: valhalla
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...lasted some five hours. There was also a tour of an A. & P. store in New Rochelle, N.Y. with John Hartford ("He was wonderful; I got 30 pages of quotes including his dismay at the high cost of radishes") and an invitation to tour the Hartford country place in Valhalla, N.Y. The Valhalla tour was made with "a magnificent horse drawing a real fringe-topped surrey." After the ride they all raked leaves together before lunch, and when it was time to go, Liz was presented with a dozen fresh country eggs...
...ancients, legendary Valhalla lay somewhere in the great beyond; but for one group of scholars, at least--the University's anthropologists--Valhalla might more appropriately lie right here in Cambridge, inside the walls of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology...
...Gamp, Bill Sikes, Barkis, Mrs. Gummidge, for a few-though they have been in a century's deep freeze, are still succulent with life. Though literary immortality is as chancy as other sorts, it looks as though Joyce Cary has already added his quota to fiction's Valhalla: Gulley Jimson, Sara Monday. Mister Johnson, Tom Wilcher. Last week he added two more: Chester Nimmo and Nina...
Memorial Hall, that great, disputed, stranded galleon of the Harvard state celebrates its 75th birthday this year. Once described as "the most frightening building in greater Boston," praised as a "great, bristling brick Valhalla," it has served generations of Harvard men in its multiplicity of function regardless of architectural merit...
Briefly, it tells of three dead people whose souls are given three days to decide where they would like to go, Valhalla, Erehwon, or Xanadu, all substitutes for censored sections of the Afterworld. There are two subplots: a search for the Ring of Nibelung and a fix of the Hoop Race in Valhalla, not to mention a takeof on the Cocktail Party and what seemed to be an allusion to F. Scott Fitxgerald. Let it suffice to say it was confusing...