Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Phillipp Schorsch (Jan. 5) is feeling "a bit dizzy" after only four days of his hunger strike, it would seem that his horizontal exercises haven't been enough to get him into good physical shape. The experts at the hunger strike game--such as some Indian ascetics--have been known to last sixty to seventy days without food...
...week for marriage and a brief honeymoon, Prime Minister Dom Mintoff promptly told the entire house to take a five-day recess. There was nothing festive about the holiday. Maltese opinion is sharply split over Mintoffs order that British troops either pay higher rents or quit the island (TIME, Jan. 10). With tensions rising as his Jan. 15 deadline approached and with only a one-vote parliamentary advantage, Mintoff was afraid to risk a vote of confidence while the groom -one of his own Labor Party supporters-dallied elsewhere...
...door. In Doctors' Wives, she was a bored spouse on the prowl for fresh medical talent; in The Love Machine, the nympho consort of the head of a giant TV network; in The Anderson Tapes, a high-class prostitute. Now Otto Preminger's Such Good Friends (TIME, Jan. 10) has her bedding down with her dying husband's best friends-how else is a girl going to cope with the discovery of her mate's past infidelities...
...PEACEABLE KINGDOM by JAN DE HARTOG 677 pages. Atheneum...
...that they are unique. Like lovers, they are of course right. But the passion for God, like other passions, obeys certain plot patterns-all subject to certain beginnings, middles and ends. The kindling, the cooling and the rekindling of the Quakers is the present theme of Dutch Novelist-Playwright Jan de Hartog. In this first of two novels in progress, he takes the history of the Religious Society of Friends from Cromwell's England, 1652, to Pennsylvania, 1755, and the brink of the French-Indian war. The Peaceable Kingdom fs clumsily written. Nevertheless De Hartog, a Friend himself...