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...first the villagers reacted in kind, but as Gibran became a cult hero of the young, royalty income mounted to a current $300,000 a year. The town dissolved into political, legal and physical fighting for control of the money...
...Kahlil Gibran's 1923 view of money matters, as spelled out in The Prophet, may have had some roots in his memories of the rough-and-tumble commerce practiced in his native village of Bsharri, Lebanon. Eight years later, when the author lay dying of tuberculosis in St. Vincent's Hospital in New York, he scribbled a one-page will in which he bequeathed the royalties from seven books to the people of Bsharri. After all, the books were not selling very well; they would bring a few thousand dollars a year to the relatively poor town...
...gaiety of the wedding. Tricia and Eddie will exchange vows in a ten-minute service presided over by the Rev. Edward Gardiner Latch, a Methodist who is the Nixons' old family pastor and chaplain of the House of Representatives. While hardly venturesome as the new improvisational weddings go?Kahlil Gibran will not be recited?the service will be mildly ecumenical. There will be Episcopal (Ed is an Episcopalian) as well as Methodist and Catholic prayers...
Newly-elected Jeffrey A. Goodby makes the wittiest contributions. In "Why Do Firemen Wear Red Suspenders?" he lampoons the styles of J. D. Salinger. Emily Dickinson, ?. ?. c??mmings. James Jo?ee. Karl Marx, and Kahill Gibran, by giving their inevitable responses to the riddle: "to keep their pants up." For Emily Dickinson. he writes...
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...