Word: gabrielic
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...James Dickey's novel Deliverance. North Carolina's Sam Ervin lent the campaign his Old Testament eloquence. "Let us not dam the New River," he said. "I use the word dam in the sense of ruining the New River from now until the last notes of Gabriel's horn tremble into silence, because we cannot use the New River after it has been dammed...
...Mozartean style. From New York's Frederica von Stade came a Cherubino of distilled soprano beauty and ebullient range of boyish emotion. Soprano Mirella Freni remains the best Susanna of the day. Belgium's José Van Dam is a handsome, intelligent, rich-voiced Figaro. Gabriel Bacquier's Count Almaviva just gets better with the years...
...people. The men raided the plantations for black women and supplies. They built their own villages at the head of river rapids (where intruders could be sighted during portage) and raised crops far from the villages so that Europeans would be unlikely to find them. English Mercenary Captain John Gabriel Stedman, who fought against the bush people from 1772 to 1777, wrote of one military maneuver: "This was certainly such a masterly trait of generalship in a savage people, whom we affected to despise, as would have done honour to any European commander, and has perhaps been seldom equalled...
Nevertheless, a few stories have emerged. The Boston Globe (5/5/76) estimates the number of Argentine detainees to be about 7500. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the well-known Colombian novelist, estimates that there were about 10,000 foreign detainees as of April 22 (N.Y. Times, 5/8/76). Some individual cases can be recounted here: Emilio de Ippola, a Paris and Montreal educated Argentine sociologist, disappeared on April 4 along with his wife and Eduardo Molina y Vedia, a reporter from La Opinion. A prompt international campaign of telegrams to Videla inquiring about the disappearances made the junta aware that the news had somehow...
...Gabriel said that although he respects Silber's "intellectual leadership," the controversial president does not have the "managerial capacity necessary for the administration of a university...