Word: gabrielic
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...draw her affection, partly because they are in a better position than the strong or successful to understand the real condition of life: that it is vulnerable to mysterious sudden changes, controlled by powers that the subject does not understand. Imaginative arrangements must be made, all of them temporary. "Gabriel at that time," Gallant writes about a young refugee in France, "still imagined that everyone's life must be about the same, something like a half-worked crossword puzzle...
...style has much in common with the fantasy of Kafka, Borges, Stanislaw Lem and Gabriel Garcia Marquez; as in Kafka's The Castle and Lem's Memoir's Found in a Bathtub, Abe's new novel presents a protagonist thrust into an absurd, alien environment with a mission he must accomplish. In the former, a gentlemen K., claiming to be a land surveyor, sets out to reach the castle, while Lem's memoir-writer must wander through endless corridors to escape from a vast underground military complex. In Secret Rendezvous, the labyrinth is an enormous hospital, and the unnamed protagonist...
...brought other changes. The optimistic liberal internationalism of the New Deal was replaced in textbooks by a stern and admonitory antiCommunism. In one volume, The Story of American Democracy by Mabel B. Casner and Ralph Henry Gabriel, junior high school children were encouraged to report to the FBI anyone they suspected of "Communist activity." Still, the old heroes lingered on -Custer, Robert E. Lee, "the friendly Indian, Squanto," who welcomed the Plymouth Rock Pilgrims in 1620 and showed them how to plant corn...
MARRIED. Debby Boone, 22, singing daughter of Balladeer Pat Boone; and her personal manager, Gabriel Ferrer, 22, son of Songstress Rosemary Clooney and Actor José Ferrer; in Hollywood. Wholesome Debby met the light of her life in a Bible class...
...Edward Gabriel, Executive Director