Word: gabrielic
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...weeks ago and all jut elected exiled Presidential Candidate Victor Paz Estenssoro, leader in absentia of the Movement of National Revolution. Despite the M.N.R.'s old record of Nazi-style violence, Paz Estenssoro won a clear plurality (45% of the total vote) over the runner-up government candidate, Gabriel Gosálvez. The government was indeed "faced with a dilemma": either let Paz Estenssoro have the presidency, or risk an M.N.R. revolt-a choice between violence and violence...
...folks stuck it out for a long time-although they could only raise enough food to support themselves one day in ten, and had to be succored by contributions Jerry collected from parishioners who had stayed behind. But Gabriel refused to blow his horn, and the old folks began to suspect that they were all going to collapse long before the Last Day. Then a competing minister slipped in, sowed "seeds of dissension" and unsportingly left to get a job picking cotton before Jerry could engage him in oratorical combat. Two by two, the inhabitants took their canned food...
Trappist Father Gabriel [TIME, March 19] is the very popular Father Arthur O'Conne11, who taught us baseball and heard our confessions at St. James's School in San Francisco...
There is a sly humor in such episodes as that of Noah and the Flood; a piquant realism to making the headquarters of the Lord a sleepy, small-town office. The best performances-such as Ossie Davis' as Gabriel-have an easy charm, and the best of Robert Edmond Jones's sets have a clean, morning freshness. And the Hall Johnson Choir strikes a resonant note with its singing of the spirituals...
...example, Father Gabriel wanted the new monastery (to be built as soon as the community's "precarious finances" permit) in front of the old manor house, so it would be the first structure visitors would see. "But I was howled down," he said. "The monastery will be built on the heights in back of the building...