Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Poems. Narratives inform the body of Robinson Jeffers' verse. Tamar, of which the above are the opening lines, unrolls a tragedy of incest, Hebraic in origin (II Samuel xiii), Greek in treatment. Tamar Cauldwell, slender virgin in a rotting house, makes her brother her lover, takes another lover to shade the fruit of her sin. The ghost of old Caukler's incestuous sister?returning through the trances of a fat psychic aunt, Stella, and the gibbering of an idiot aunt, "poor Jinny" ?torments Tamar, tells her a curse is in her blood, inescapable, unclean. Tamar, fearless and fire-souled...
...Redman ? Henry Holt ($2.50). Among other notable equipment, the French mind possesses a love of Definition and innumerable definitions of Love. Remain Rolland, who professes that his characters choose him rather than he them, has now been selected by a strong-headed, rich-blooded French virgin (Annette) for the purpose of establishing, beyond all peradventure, certain emotional processes: how she came, after her wild but lovable father's death, to hate her vulgarian half-sister (Sylvie), then to love her passionately; to love an Italian bravo, forget him; then to love burly and brilliant Roger Brissot, then...
...Virgin of Bethulia. The Bible is primarily theatrical in many of its parables. Also the essence of an elaborate church service touches within its watchers the same chord which responds to climaxes behind the footlights. Of late years, the Theatre has drifted away from the color and the sounding mystery of ancient pageants in the playhouse. The Miracle revived the fashion; The Virgin of Bethulia attempts, in a less imposing manner, to continue the revival...
Truth-in-Fabric. Passage of the proposed bill which would require the labeling of wool fabrics with a statement of the percentage of virgin wool, shoddy, cotton, linen, silk which each contains...
...entire series has been completed. Wednesday he will speak on "The Life and Purpose of Jesus of Nazareth", and Friday his subject will be "The Teaching of Jesus", The other lectures will deal with other topics about the life of the founder of Christianity, including the much debated "Virgin Birth...