Word: journey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DARK AS THE GRAVE WHEREIN MY FRIEND IS LAID, by Malcolm Lowry. Containing all the excitement of a metaphysical cliffhanger, these collected fragments of unfinished poems, stories and novels help to illuminate the dark journey of the late tormented writer...
...sought by princes and kings, including Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, whose visit to Jerusalem Cook's arranged in 1898. It required 300 tents, 800 mule drivers, 1,430 mules and camels and a small army of servants to keep the Kaiser and his retinue comfortable on the journey. Cook's has never since done anything on quite such grandiose scale. It hopes from now on to increase profits by presenting a more proletarian image...
...concern individual therapy and emotional redemption through bizarre and indirect encounters with melodrama. In North by Northwest, Thornhill's adventure with the spies almost kills him, finally leaves him a more complete man than in the beginning of the film; Jeffries in Rear Window is more mature for his journey into depravity, as is Marnie after experiencing for a second time the trauma of her youth. Truffaut is too intelligent to afford dramatic consummation only to Julie's desire for revenge, and some indirect therapy does take place in The Bride Wore Black, Truffaut suggesting that at least three...
...seven days. The dancing kept up, the drinking kept up, the noise went on." Thus, in 1926 in The Sun Also Rises, did a young Ernest Hemingway describe the Feria de San Fermin, the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. This month his widow Mary made a sentimental journey to Pamplona to witness the unveiling of a monument to Papa, erected by the citizens in gratitude for his interest in their fiesta. Standing on the newly named Paseo de Hemingway, Mary thanked the citizens through her tears. There was an emotional pause, then six bands burst into a typical...
...Cook, director of the program, points out that it is only during the final week or two that real unity develops. "The raft is perfect for group therapy," he says. "You can control almost all the pressures on the boys." After the only incident of trouble on the latest journey-some swearing in a Y.M.C.A.-the guilty boy was made to feel so unhappy about letting his buddies down that he punished himself by standing alone for an hour in the corner of the raft...