Word: english
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ramsey W. Hall, 26, son of a North Carolina judge, was a topnotch graduate student in English at Nashville's Vanderbilt University. He was a big man, 6 ft. 2 in. and 220 Ibs., and as far as anyone knew he was gentle and re strained. One night last January he went berserk: three policemen tried to subdue him. Ever since, Nashville has been up in arms over the fact that in the subsequent fight he was killed by the police...
...last day alive, a day pressured by exams, Hall got a speeding ticket from a traffic cop who recalls him as "very courteous." He conferred normal ly with an English professor, then walked into a grocery store, phoned a girl in Mississippi he barely knew and asked her to marry him. "I am intoxicated with love," Hall said. He began crying and laughing; a policeman was called, and drove him home. Later, Hall spoke wildly to his landlady, Mrs. Aline Johnson, and started kicking the door between their apartments. Shortly be fore midnight, Mrs. Johnson called the police, and three...
...situation of the churches no longer needs to create a new spiritual community. Says Father Dino Bellucci of Rome's Gregorian University: "Today, it is possible for a man to leave the organized church and try to remain a Christian outside organized Christianity"-the path chosen by English Theologian Charles Davis when he recently left Catholicism (TIME...
...stuffed cloak-bag of guts," dominates the stage. Welles is probably the first actor in the history of the theater to appear too fat for the role. Immense, waddling, jowly, pantomiming with a great theatrical strawberry nose and crafty, porcine eyes, he takes command of scenes less with spoken English than with body English. In whatever he does Welles is never en tirely bad-or entirely excellent. In this film there flickers the glitter of authentic genius, along with great stony stretches of dullness and incoherence...
...that is as mysterious and elusive as the fretted shadows on the moonlit grass. He is Jorge Luis Borges, 67, who has been hailed in his own country as the greatest living writer in Spanish, though only a few of his books (Ficciones, Dreamti-gers) have been translated into English. All told, his international reputation rests on three slim volumes. These new selections are a collage of fables, parables, essays and poems-the ones he chooses to be judged...