Word: corlis
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...they are to be believed," he said, "the world-unready as yet to be set right by them-is totally cor-rupt, governed, controlled, and manipulated by schemers of whom, I suppose-at least in a minor way-I must be considered...
Lawrence All-unit Darby of Poolesvilie, Md., announced last night when cor??acted by the CRIMSON, "Canonero II will have great difficulty winning the Triple Crown, if he wins at all." His opinion is of some interest...
...service restaurant was turning out $2.25 dinners of shrimp, steak and pie. Members who were not exhausted from a day at the beach or sports could swim in the 50-meter pool, enjoy a sauna, or play pool, darts or table tennis. The architecture is brash, the décor early TWA, the tone matey and the turnover tremendous. The income from the slot machines pays the mortgages and keeps the costs down...
WHETHER God is dead or not, his angels seem to be. The angel in 1970 is mere commercial décor-a mothlike doll with pink wings and a smirk of good cheer, dangling amid the glitter balls on a thousand plastic Yule trees or twanging its polystyrene harp in the window of a Brooklyn store. In fact, Christmas is about the only area of our culture in which angels survive at all. An archangel, Gabriel, told the Virgin Mary that she would bear the son of God; it was an angel (progenitor of a billion Christmas cards) who appeared...
...stands in the center of Carpentras. its austere stone exterior relieved only by a plaque bearing a laconic message: THIS HOUSE OF PRAYER, BUILT IN 1367, WAS RECONSTRUCTED FROM 1741 TO 1743. Inside, all is ornate -fine old chandeliers, green woodwork, delicately forged iron. The Louis XV décor in a synagogue seems as out of place as the large cross formed by the windows. The window arrangement, however, is entirely appropriate: for the synagogue of Carpentras, near Avignon, is a relic of a strange medieval relationship between the papacy and a Jewish community...