Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Holes in a Sponge. This popularization has only made his real nature more obscure. Satan, as his current biographers believe, is literally "a fallen angel," a pure spirit without a body who tempts man to sin. He is not the principle of Evil, since Evil is itself a negative quality, i.e., merely the lack of Good in God's imperfect creatures. As French Historian Henri-Irénée Marrou explains it, it is like the holes in a sponge. "Evil," he continues, "is something that need not have existed ... It reveals in all its depth and ambivalence...
Soon after their marriage, Wayne became a producer at Republic (two Wayne productions: The Angel and the Badman, The Bullfighter and the Lady), and the work and the talk increased proportionately. Pacing the floor of his executive's office, amid the constant clangor of telephone bells and interoffice squawkers, his quick temper frequently boils over. After one of these outbursts, he broods for a while, then seeks out his victim in contrition. "I'm always apologizing to somebody," he says. He has acquired that final badge of executive success, a gastric ulcer. In 1950, after finishing Jet Pilot...
...Blue Angel...
...magazine of opinion," says New Republic Editor and Financial Angel Michael Straight, "has a rough time nowadays. You tend to restrict your opinions more & more to make them coincide with the opinions of your readers and sometimes you find you have restricted yourself to rather small groups." As proof, Editor Straight could point to his own magazine. Once a rallying point for liberals, the New Republic has steadily restricted its opinions while swinging from the New Deal to Henry Wallace, and back to the Fair Deal when Wallace became a presidential candidate. Result: its group of readers...
...York City, the other in Westchester, N.Y. What with dashing from one wife to the other, delivering lectures and churning out dime novels, he had little time for his favorite refuge-an Indian tent on the outskirts of Stamford, N.Y., where he wrote a tract titled "Woman as Angel and Fiend." He was also, he claimed, founder of the Order of the Sons of Temperance, vice president of the Patriotic and Benevolent Order of the Sons of America, and a pillar of the Order of Good Templars. When he relaxed his temperance so far as to be unable to churn...