Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...understand there has been a revival of black magic practices in Birmingham," said Evangelist Bryan Green, Britain's Billy Graham. Black magic, he warned Britons, "debases man's desire to love and trust God as his heavenly father and tries to get him to make the devil his source of guidance. My warning is-keep clear of black magic. And if anyone should himself be drawn into a circle that he suspects has black magic links and leanings to perversion, he should talk at once to his doctor or a friendly parson who will respect his confidences...
...tourists will find one of the world's oldest cultures and some of its most awesomely rugged scenery. Within reach of the big cities are such sights as the magnificent, white marble Taj Mahal at Agra, the ancient Holy City of Benares, Mt. Everest looming over the green tea gardens of Darjeeling. Off the beaten track are trips to the village of Molar Bund, 16 miles from New Delhi, which is entirely inhabited by snake charmers, and to the famed cave temples of Elephanta and Ajanta. For $1,500 per person, two-week tiger hunts can be arranged...
...Richer. But he detested the regulation texts ("All workbook stuff-read the chapter, answer the questions, turn them in, then read the next chapter"), and if his pupils expressed curiosity about a topic, he was apt to get carried away. He assigned some strange themes (sample topic, taken from Green Pastures: "Even bein' God ain't no bed of roses"). He also read parts of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men "so that the kids could learn this lesson, that everybody in this world needs somebody else...
...Base on a special mission to the planetary system of Alpha Aquilae. As it approaches the Planet Altair-4, it changes flux, reverses polarity, sits down gently as great hairy bolts of blue electricity spray out to cushion the landing. Gangways flip down; scouts run out. The sky is green, the surrounding desert an odd shade of pink. Suddenly a big. black robot drives up, addresses the commander (Leslie Nielsen) in cultured English, invites him to visit the planet's only human inhabitant, a mad scientist (Walter Pidgeon). This Dr. Morbius, sole survivor of a party of colonists sent...
...GREEN MARE (234 pp.)-Marcel Aymé-Harper...