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Then Ben-Gurion dropped his matter-of-fact manner. The labor politician was replaced by the prophet. A dreamer's stare veiled his blue eyes. The room was small but his voice throbbed loudly, as if speaking to multitudes against the winds on Mount Carmel...
...that point, Ben-Gurion descended from Mount Carmel. "Perhaps," he said apologetically, "this may sound rather chauvinistic...
...last phrase refers to the physical universe as seen from the coast range at Carmel, Calif. In the scale of this pure spectacle, at which John Robinson (Robin) Jeffers has been staring in awe since he settled at Carmel in 1914, human lives and the human race itself look infinitely tiny and disgusting to him; having beheld the stars above the sea he has seemed to conclude, for example, that the love of man and woman is nastiness. Critics who inquire how the conclusion follows from the evidence have been referred by the poet to "instinct," i.e., no rational process...
Killed. Earl Carroll, 55, gaunt, gaudy Broadway writer-producer (So Long Letty, White Cargo, Vanities), latter-day Hollywood nightclub owner; in an airplane crash; near Mt. Carmel, Pa. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Carroll got his start as a lyricist for the late Enrico Caruso, went on to produce 15 editions of his Vanities, two Sketch Books. He declared bankruptcy in 1936, two years later opened his colossal nightclub...
...Yourself, Just Yourself." Like most expatriates, Miller finally came home to the land he despised. Now mellowed and middle-aged (56) and married, he lives with his young third wife and two-year-old daughter near Carmel, Calif. His new book is unlike anything he ever wrote before. Decorated with prints by Chagall, Picasso and Rouault, The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder contains not one touch of profanity. It is also written with surprising restraint. The Smile is the story of a clown, Auguste, who throws up his career to find true bliss in just being himself...