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...church's "egoism, cultivated idleness, ridiculous self-satisfaction"). Only in 1971 did the Teilhard family agree to publication of the notebooks. The first of two volumes will appear in Paris next month. The intimate, unguarded diary, which fleshes out the previously released wartime essays and letters to his cousin, will be essential reading for Teilhard aficionados...
...what about men? The Marias make a rather half-hearted attempt to present their side of the story, but all the male characters fall into the pattern of the callous and insensitive French cavalier with a monotonous sameness. There is one exception--a sympathetic cousin whom Mariana calls her "guardian angel"--but he proves to be an unstable character and, like her, commits suicide...
Since the invention of the Hammond organ in 1935, hardly an instrument exists that has not been electrified. Piano, flute, violin, trumpet, drums -each has its own plugged-in cousin. Most conspicuous is pop-rock's king of instruments, the electric guitar. Ten years ago, from Engineering Physicist Robert Moog, came the Moog synthesizer, which first produced music through electricity alone. A nuclear-age superorgan, it looks like the offspring of a piano and a telephone switchboard...
...cope with an inflation rate of 30%, land and labor reforms, and a cumbersome bureaucracy. A political moderate who served as ambassador to the U.S. during World War II and was Prime Minister once before for a brief period in 1945, he is a strong monarchist and a distant cousin of the King...
Died. Amy Vanderbilt, 66, doyenne of American etiquette; of injuries suffered in a fall from the window of her Manhattan brownstone. Great-granddaughter of a cousin of the rail baron Cornelius, she was born on Staten Island and began her career writing society columns in a local paper, went on to become a syndicated columnist. Her Complete Book of Etiquette (1952) sold almost 3 million copies, with such advice as where the father of the bride should sit if he and the mother of the bride are divorced. (Beside his new wife in the third pew behind the mother...