Word: maidenhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amid green woods, far removed from the bleeding tarts and coal-quay whores of Ulysses' Dublin, the young lover sings the praises of his "dove," his "beautiful one"-half angel, half virgin; he finally persuades her to undo the snood ''that is the sign of maidenhood"; and ends up in the classic predicament of all lyric lovers: starkly sitting on his bottom, all alone. A genius at mimicry. Joyce succeeds in imparting a flavor of old-fashioned purity to his verses; but behind this not entirely insincere façade the reader can sense, and sometimes...
Centuries ago in Rome Christian-born Agnes swore herself to virginity, miraculously preserved her maidenhood despite an attempted outrage, was martyred by decapitation at the age of 12. Youngest child saint of all. little St. Hugh of Lincoln was crucified, supposedly by Jews, in 1255 at the age of 9. In Jesuit America last week a Benedictine named Bonaventure Schwinn produced a mo,dern "Who's Who of Child Candidates for Beatification...