Word: abel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emphasizing the sweet, the decent, the well behaved. Odysseus, to pluck an early example from Homer, was a wife-neglecting troublemaker if there ever was one. Even in the inspired stories of the Bible, people seldom behave very well, beginning with Adam and Eve and proceeding to Cain and Abel and the folk in Sodom and Gomorrah. Contemporary fictions create their own mischief: Portnoy, for example, spends precious little time collecting for the United Fund...
...Alice Abel Kemp Athens...
...East of Eden, there can be no such hope. Twelve years after his death, Steinbeck's reputation grazes in the pasture of celebrated oblivion inhabited by many literary Nobel laureates. But his recasting of the Cain and Abel story in turn-of-the-century California deserves better than the ABC version, and indeed it got it in a 1955 film that starred Raymond Massey as steel-spined Adam Trask and James Dean as Cal, his loving renegade...
...Paris premiere of a new movie. At its end, the two great-men-to-be were on their feet, cheering. Malraux remembered De Gaulle waving his long arms and crying, "Bravo, magnifique!" It is said that De Gaulle never forgot the images of glory he found that evening in Abel Gance's epic reconstruction of another young soldier's climb to greatness, Napoleon...
...hear that someone is dead and you say, "I didn't even know he was sick." You would not have this problem with Herrington. He excudes cancer. When he dies in the second round he has died of natural causes. Simms is Hagler's half-brother. Two Cains, no Abel...