Word: gabriele
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gabriel Marcel, who has remained among the foremost of French existentialists for nearly half a century, said in his first William James lecture yesterday that a philosopher only remains a philosopher so long as he retains the child's capacity for "wonderment...
...GABRIEL H. MARCEL, William James Lecturer on Philosophy and member of the Institute de France, will discuss "The Existential Background of Human Dignity" in Emerson...
...gloomiest and loveliest volumes of European legend. Translated to a Mexican setting by B. Traven, a mysterious recluse (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948) who lives in Mexico and writes masterly proletarian novels and short stories, the legend has been transformed by two gifted Mexicans, Director Roberto Gavaldon and Cameraman Gabriel Figueroa, into a fragile but profound little picture that abounds and delights in the black-and-white magic of the magic lantern...
...Greater Infortune concerns a Scot named A. W. Leckie who goes bankrupt, settles in London with his incredibly cheerful wife Alison, and begins to subsist on handouts from a rich homosexual. He goes partying with a congeries of unlovable eccentrics, such as the frail and balding Gabriel Fantl, who was "reputed to have more women by the month than any known man,'' elderly Effie, who had three ghosts (a poltergeist, Thomas De Quincey, and a half-man, half-beast), and Flora Massingham, "as fat and pink as a pig at Christmas," who took him to see a magic...
...Gabriel Fielding's books about the Blaydons are intended as a major effort "to explore the moral and spiritual values of the confused middle class of our time." This central concern makes young John Blaydon considerably more important than that stock figure of current British fiction, the "sensitive young man." In Blaydon's comic failures in love, his hopeless involvement with family, and his fumbling exploration of religion and politics, Author Fielding finds mirror images of the society John Blaydon so uneasily inhabits...