Word: gibran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instead, the whole assembly read "On Love" from Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. The Epistle and Gospel were read by Jewish and Jesuit friends respectively...
...Berkeley's Schorske might be described in the words of Gibran in The Prophet: "The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind...
...really love Gibran. The Prophet is my Bible on the road," smiled Hope Diamond nee Leona Bonaccolte), pointing to a well thumbed copy which lay on her dressing room table atop the pile of sundry boudoir exotica she was rummaging through...
...then there was Hope Diamond, heh, heh. After the adhesive tape problem had been solved the conversation turned once more to Gibran and bourgeois morality. "I think of myself as a girl telling a story. While I'm up there, I'm completely un-self-conscious...a lot of burlesque is really all in fun... I'm glad you can't see the audience while you're up there. If I saw someone really leering, I'd be embarrassed," she said, starting from scratch to put on her costume ("I hope I'm not embarassing anybody...
...older burlies performers the very breath of life, from the spotlight. She's more of a respectable madame figure than a temptress. And when the show has closed and the props are packed, she is no longer Hope Diamond, gem of the exotics, but Leona Bonaccolte, reader of Gibran, mother, and resident of Edgewater...