Word: alaine
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John A. Coyne '56, Alain C. deVergie '57, and Arnold M. Kagan '56 are the candidates from Dudley House, where voting started yesterday...
Missing Spark. Meanwhile, the art of the churches, predominant in Western culture for the first 18 centuries of Christian history, lies torpid. A French Dominican friar named Marie-Alain Couturier put the situation even more bluntly. Shortly before his own death this year, Father Couturier wrote that "Christian art is dead...
...Philadelphia's Alain leRoy Locke, Harvard 1907, who finished his three-year Oxford studies in 1910, later became a professor of philosophy at Washington, D.C.'s Howard University, died ast year...
Pants in the Ants. In Journey to the Far Amazon, Explorer Alain Gheerbrant tells how, with one Colombian and two Frenchmen, he plunged into the "green hell" of the Sierra Parima between Venezuela and Brazil. That vast sea of vegetation, never before crossed by a white man, was filled with reptiles, insects and maiir eating fish, all unfriendly. One night in a grotto a scraping noise awakened Gheerbrant. It was an advancing column, 16 inches wide, of red ants. They had already devoured his belt, half his trousers and were starting on his leather camera case...
Food in the Sea. Author Alain Bombard's Atlantic adventure, set down in The Voyage of the Heretique, was even more primitive than Gheerbrant's Amazonian hardships. For 65 days and nights, from the Canaries to the West Indies, he was alone on the vast waters of the ocean (TIME. Jan. 5. 1953), living only on the fish and birds he could catch and eat raw and the liquid he could get from...