Word: kahlil
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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...
...when the unclean shall be no more, what were modesty but a fetter and a fouling of the mind? --Kahlil Gibran The Prophet...
...Alfred A. Knopf, then 23 and a newcomer to the book-publishing business, was introduced to a Lebanese artist-poet in a Greenwich Village cafe. Knopf had never heard of Kahlil Gibran, but his young publishing firm needed authors, and during the next four years he published three Gibran books; all sold dismally. The Prophet, brought out in 1923, did slightly better...
...sparse selection of sculpture even less can be said; such is doubly sad since sculptors once provided the Festival's most exciting works. Of the twenty-odd pieces only John Bergschneider's Lucifer and Kahlil Gibran's Torso are particularly good although Eleanor Koplow's amusing ceramic of Miami Beach will be the chief crowd-pleaser. The only notable ink drawing is one by Alexander Robert McDonald, and there are no memorable woodcuts or lithographs...
...musicians out of work form the fringe of the modern audience-together with simple jazz fans. But at the core of things are the intense jazz snobs whose twin occupations are fawning over musicians and playing it cool-the true believers who put Miles Davis up in the Kahlil Gibran class because he "has feeling," or else down in the Count Basie class because he makes money. In their tame argot, jazz musicians are "beautiful persons," and so, by osmosis, are they...