Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Midway between idiocy and profundity, he dragged her on like a half-dead cat waiting for its next life. He pointed out an angel with a slit throat lying by the roadside. The myths have collapsed and they journeyed faceless...
...Caldera, 52, a talented lawyer who has been trying for the presidency since 1947, and now has assembled the country's smoothest-functioning political machine. Also in the running are four splinter candidates, most notably Acción Democrática Dissident Luis Beltran Prieto and Miguel Angel Burelli, who has the support of three minor opposition parties...
...will run the Angel Gabriel instead...
...next two groups of essays, Nuptials (1938) and Summer (1954), Camus' ideas about how to combat life's absurdities deepen as he faces the dark despondency he finds in Europe. Like a fallen angel, he keeps looking homeward for the revitalizing sensual graces of Algeria. And in these journeys are intimations of the ideas in his future writings. In the heavy stone city of Oran, he finds a refreshing boredom in the ordinary down-to-earth commercialism that appears as the setting for his later novel, The Plague. Among the flowers and ruins at Tipasa, Camus discovers that...
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST (Angel). This collection of lieder, arias and assorted other snippets gives a fair indication of Fischer-Dieskau's tal ent. He is a meticulous singer who never sloughs off a nuance or fuzzes an accent. Though his baritone is aptly described as dry rather than warm, he has range and power to spare. Lieder are his forte, but this disk demonstrates a thoroughgoing comprehension of opera as well...