Word: gabriel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Girl with the Golden Eyes. Pas pour les enfants: a story, adapted by Jean-Gabriel Albicocco from a feverish romance by Balzac, of love on the AC-DC circuit...
Sure to provoke a row when it comes out next month is Letters from the Earth, containing hitherto unpublished, antireligious essays by Humorist Mark Twain. In the guise of Satan writing to the Archangels Gabriel and Michael, Twain pictures man as the foolish and conceited victim of his own preposterous religious beliefs. Coming from manuscripts dated in the last few years before Twain's death in 1910, the book was pieced together by the late Bernard DeVoto in 1939. But the content so disturbed Twain's Christian Scientist daughter, Mrs. Clara Clemens Samossoud, now 88, that she refused...
Startling that a film so skillful could be made by a man so young: Director Jean-Gabriel Albicocco is only 26. True, he has had help from his family. His father, a well-known photographer, is in charge of his camera, and his wife is his leading lady. She plays with an easy and spontaneous grace, and she looks, in her moments of limp asthenic loveliness, like an undine sighing in the Seine...
Delegates ranged from dedicated atheists to questioning agnostics eager to cooperate with well-meaning Christians in building the good society, and they differed widely in their attitude toward religion. Norwegian Psychiatrist Gabriel Langfeldt argued that individuals would, in the future development of mankind, have to make a choice between religion and ethics: "Crediting ethics to supernaturally inspired messages and to revelations has led and still leads to brutal wars. Ethics, anchored as it is in purely human needs, will always win where religion and ethics come into conflict...
Winning 14 of 22 events (including seven 1-2 sweeps), the U.S. men's team crushed the Russians, 128-107, for the fourth straight year. As expected, the U.S. women were beaten, 66-41, giving Russian Coach Gabriel Khorobkov the opportunity to add the two scores together (in violation of a pre-meet agreement) and loudly proclaim a four-point victory for the Soviet Union. But the homefolks in Moscow knew better. Wrote ex-Olympic 5,000-Meter Champion Vladimir Kuts in Izvestia: "The United States is the strongest track and field power in the world...