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...region around Point Sur is already crowded with psychic disturbances. While dry winds blew, followed by a night "striped with lightning" and a day of yellow floods, two boys crucified a hawk; their brother, a visionary, saw the Virgin walking on the sea, mountain tall, mourning her lover; a ranch girl fled to her man to slake her fear of death; the lighthouse keeper's daughter, Faith Heriot, went in a famine of unnatural love to Natalia Morhead, whose husband's act unsexed Faith Heriot two years before. Morhead is not back from the War. Faith nurses his crippled father...
...Shortly after the Wright brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk, N. C., in 1903, of which Student Bellanca had no knowledge...
...Lieutenant Jefferson Davis mustered into the U. S. army Abraham Lincoln, head of a group of Illinois volunteers enlisting for the Black Hawk Indian...
...lines, flexibly austere, trace out the action sharply and whip passion to its perfect pitch. But then, often, the simple words are tortured and strained deviously to sustain ecstasy, in bodiless comparative discussions of ecstasy itself. Then the lines ache like tendons not strong enough to keep a soaring hawk aloft, needing a gust of action, a wingbeat of refreshed emotion to lift the poem again...
Park--"The Night Hawk"--8.15 o'clock--Another play about a Magdelene. She's shipped to Kansas...