Word: companions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barren materialism." But Communism "succeeds because it is not materialism. All things are given value and purpose and drawn into a huge vision for the totality of man and the world." In contrast, Christianity has shrunk until it has become little more than "a support to our weakness, companion to our loneliness, counselor to our neuroticisms, and heavenly confirmer of our national purpose." What is needed is an all-encompassing Christian vision-"truer, vaster and tougher than the Marxist vision," with a core of spirituality illuminating "economics, politics, and all other areas of human affairs...
...earlier, on a trip between south New Guinea's coastal villages of Agats and Atsj, Mike Rockefeller's native catamaran capsized in the swelling Arafura Sea. Mike dived off to swim for help through waters infested with sharks toward a swampy shore swarming with crocodiles. After a companion who stayed with the boat was rescued, New Guinea's Dutch officials ordered a search for Michael. Nelson Rockefeller chartered a jet for $38,000, flew out to join the hunt. "I could never forgive myself," he explained, "if I didn't do everything possible to help find...
Very French. Big names still show up, too: Thornton Wilder, Gene Kelly, William Shirer, James Jones. Playwright Brendan Behan even turns up sober. But, a good part of the present clientele is French. Jean-Paul Sartre and his constant companion, Simone de Beauvoir, make Harry's their regular hangout. Françoise Sagan uses Harry's for her tristes, and so do a growing number of young French playwrights, film directors and actors...
Mattei's companion on the river was Charles Forte, 53, an Italian-born British citizen whose creation of a vast snack bar chain has made him one of the few Horatio Algers in Britain's welfare state. Last week, thanks to his angling with Mattei, Forte had a new job: the chairmanship of A.G.I.P. (Great Britain) Ltd., a new E.N.I. marketing subsidiary to which Mattei has given $8,400,000 and orders to build a chain of 70 super service stations in Britain...
...faithful couple and produced five sons (Thomas was the second). But the discovery of his father's misbehavior so shocked Lawrence that he forswore sex. He turned to digging up the past as an archaeologist, becoming an expert on crusaders' castles, an Arabic linguist, and boon companion to Arabs, including handsome young Sheik Ahmed, who (Nutting notes) may be the subject of Pillars' dedicatory love poem. Currently, Nutting is acting as adviser to Hollywood Producer Sam Spiegel, now photographing a $6,000,000 epic of Lawrence of Arabia...