Word: angel
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...winnowed Western thought into Great Books of the Western World, a 54-volume set of 443 works by 74 authors (from Homer to Freud), which was published in 1952. To help readers explore those works, he classified man's search for wisdom into 102 basic ideas (from "Angel" to "World") and fashioned an index which he called the Syntopicon, meaning "collection of topics." It directs a reader exploring the ideas to every mention of them in the Great Books, plus the Bible...
Died. Louis R. Lurie, 84, self-made multimillionaire, philanthropist and theater angel; in San Francisco. Lurie was selling newspapers in Chicago at age nine when a neighborhood bully beat him so badly that he was crippled for nearly ten years. After making a stake in the printing business, he settled in San Francisco and began building a $100 million fortune in real estate speculation and construction. Show business was one of his enduring interests; among the hits he backed were Song of Norway, The Teahouse of the August Moon and Fiddler on the Roof...
...rest of the album is dredgedup old rockers, which I for one don't begrudge one bit. The most intriguing cut on the album is Hendrix's "Angel." Now, nobody ever covers Hendrix songs, simply because they're much too complex, lyrically as well as musically. But Eric Clapton brought off "Little Wing," and Stewart brings off "Angel," partially because it is one of Hendrix's simplest compositions, in both respects. He's therefore able to remain faithful to its arrangement, and infuse it with some of its original mysticism...
...people to see in Kansas City are Mary Ann (Gene Hackman) and his sultry wife Clarabelle (Angel Tompkins), a former Chicago model. Mary Ann auctions cattle and keeps the buyers happy by filling cowpens with stoned-out, naked teen-age girls, who are also up for sale. "I give this country what it wants," Mary Ann gloats. "Dope and flesh." Devlin stalks past the beef and the broads without batting an eye and confronts Mary...
Mozart: The Four Horn Concertos (Barry Tuckwell soloist, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner conductor; Angel, $5.98). As a solo instrument, the French horn lacks the innate variety of the piano or violin. That is a fact to be noted, then forgotten, while listening to this ravishing LP. Tuckwell plays the concertos as though they were as emphatically profound as anything Mozart ever wrote-which in the case of Nos. 3 (K. 447) and 4 (K. 495) is not too far from the truth...