Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statesmen signed-first Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, who presided over the drafting of the treaties, then Christian Pineau of France, Konrad Adenauer of Germany, Antonio Segni of Italy, Joseph Bech of Luxembourg and Joseph Luns of The Netherlands. Hardheaded politicians all, the signers were only too aware that the treaties might yet fail to win ratification in one or another of their parliaments (particularly the French), but even that realization could not dim the drama and promise of the moment. "If we succeed," said Belgium's Spaak, "today will be one of the most important dates...
...have become thoroughly convinced that Ben-Gurion is nothing but a treacherous hypocrite, full of hatred for the Arab, deceit for the Christian, and malice for everything not Hebrew...
...Charles Christian Wertenbaker was a member of one of Virginia's grand old families, an able journalist (on and off from 1931 to 1948 with FORTUNE, LIFE and TIME), an occasional novelist (To My Father, The Death of Kings), a big man with a strong appetite for good living. This is his widow's story from the time he learned, in the fall of 1954, that he had cancer of the lower bowel until, less than four months later, he committed suicide, at 53, by slashing his wrists with a razor handed to him by his wife...
...novel is employed solely as a vehicle of idea expression and cannot be termed artistically successful. But the ideas are very much worth expressing, even though Fisher's extensive scholarship is too heavily anti-Christian weighted...
...conclusion, however, is a very sensible one. Damon becomes a Christian; "It's the myth that counts . . . Truth, what it is but our meanings housed in myths." "If there was no such man as Jesus there should have been." Christianity is the greatest of all poems, much of human history going into the making. Fisher believes the problem to be eternal, basic to the nature of man. The novel ends with Damon's son deciding, "For this was a man's quest, this search for God. He suspected that the time would come, someday, when he would have to rise...