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Much to the amusement of several thousand students, alumni and faculty members. Weinstein finished his speech and got another ovation. What followed, though, was unplanned. Principal Gaspar Fabriquante, obviously embarrassed by Weinstein's presentation, tried to make a joke of it. "There must have been something in the water he drank." Fabriquante explained. At which point Weinstein, seated on stage, tell off his chair as it in a dead faint. Everyone watching knew it was an act--everyone that is except for the Nobel laureate alumnus seated behind Weinstein. "The guy jumped up and started frantically examining Anders to make...
...Gaspar R. Fabbricante, principal of the Manhattan school, on Monday proposed to alleviate the situation by distributing teachers' letter-writing workloads more evenly and asking students to enter a lottery system to determine which teacher would write their recommendations...
...Nicaragua, Spanish Missionary Gaspar Garcia Laviana sat inspecting a clutch of automatic rifles last October and told a visitor why he had become a firearms expert with the guerrillas who are fighting the Somoza dynasty: "I tried to save the situation in a Christian manner, in the pacifist sense of social promotion, but I realized that all this was a big trick." Two months later, the Nicaraguan National Guard announced that Garcia had been slain in combat...
...PROPHETS, two identical saviors appear in a standing-room-only world of the future. The governing Regent, his assistant, the Bailiff, and Professors Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthazar conspire to kill off one of the Prophets so that the other can take over. But their plan miscarries, and both Prophets as well as all of the plotters except the Bailiff end up dead. As you may suspect, the parallel to the original Christ story is a little like a smack in the face. Dramatically, though, it's a better play than Repeat Performance: there is one very good chase scene...
WHILE THE SORROW'S over-all portrait of the French is bleak, many people are worthy of respect. Some are heroes. Counter to the accepted wisdom, the film suggests that these are not great men, but those who knew they must do something and did. Colonel "Gaspar" explains that he didn't like the Germans eating French beef when he had none, Emmanuel D' Astier de la Vigerie merely that he had to do something, and the same with the Grave brothers. Denis Rake, an English secret agent, very simply states that as a homosexual he wanted to prove that...