Word: durants
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...VOLTAIRE by Will & Ariel Durant. 898 pages. Simon & Schusfer...
Historians Will Durant, 79, and his wife Ariel, 67, are commenting on Voltaire, but this quote could also serve as a fair estimate of the Durants' own achievement in this, the ninth and penultimate volume of their Story of Civilization, a spirited march through history begun 30 years and 8,000 pages ago. For in The Age of Voltaire (1715-1756), the Durants have clearly come upon a kindred soul, and often agreeably identify with the great French gadfly...
Another Matter. Like Voltaire, Will Durant was a Jesuitic dropout, and he finds in Voltaire an early and pristine mirror of "the decline of religious belief begetting the pessimism that would be the secret malady of the modern soul." With his ferocious assault on Christianity in a thousand plays, poems, stories, letters and polemical tracts, Voltaire accelerated more than any single man the decline of the church's authority in the 18th century...
...WILL DURANT Los Angeles
Their trail led north from Dallas to Durant, Okla., for a quickie blood test, then back across the state line to Sherman for the license, and finally to the tiny farm town of Fate, where they were married by a justice of the peace. Only because the groom is an expert drag racer was the couple, zooming over back roads at speeds up to 75 m.p.h., able to stay ahead of pursuing newsmen. At last, back home in suburban Dallas, Marina Oswald, 23, widow of John Kennedy's assassin, posed briefly with her new husband, Electronics Technician Kenneth Jess...