Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thin, dark-eyed Isaac Allal was the child of a poor tailor in the squalid Tunisian village of La Marsa; he grew up with the pale face and the weak lungs of a ghetto child. Then one day last month a glorious vista opened for him. Relief officials told the Allals that Isaac could go to a convalescent camp in Norway, and from there to Israel...
Provost Buck, who has final authority over the financial policies of the HAA, was unwilling either to confirm or deny completely the statements attributed to Bingham. (Bingham himself was not at home in the early part of the evening, and after 9 p.m. his apartment was dark and apparently empty.) The Provost's statement to the CRIMSON was this...
...John the Baptist" likens the members of a cloistered order to the unborn Baptist waiting in his mother's womb for the coming of Christ's mother, Mary, with the announcement of the anticipated birth of God, the Son. The speechless Trappists and Carmelites are "sealed in the dark and waiting to be born;" they are the sentinels that the world must post to hear "the first far drums of Christ...
...poet himself is a part of the world he is criticizing. "Lady, the night has got us by the heart--words turn to ice in my dry throat praying for a land without a prayer." Throughout Merton expresses him self simply and sublimely--"the night is falling and the dark steals all the blood from the scarred west." Religious poetry is as its best when it is unrefined emotion, when the poet does not try to explain theological riddles. Merton has reproduced a poetic experience without contaminating the purity of his emotion with any insincerity...
...throne, who will be 16 in December, had to get along with a secondhand sack suit as his first grownup outfit. Emperor Hirohito agreed that his son should have a man's suit, but it seemed uneconomical to buy a new one. So the Emperor ordered his old dark brown, big-checked tweed taken out of mothballs and altered to fit the young prince...