Word: lives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...live in the world of creation--to get in it and stay in it--to frequent it and to haunt it."--Henry James...
Launched by a Milanese comic-book publishing house after World War II, the first fumetto magazine, Grand Hotel, was simply a serialized cartoon romance. In 1947 a competitive firm substituted live models, posed them before a camera, and the fumetti art form was fixed...
Organizer John Rosengrant of the Presbyterians' Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations summed it up: "When Americans go overseas, they should be able to demonstrate that their lives are centered in a basic Christian philosophy. A Christian should live his values wherever he goes...
...proves a spectacular student. Several years later he wins a scholarship to the university in Calcutta. He rushes home in tremendous excitement. "Mother, can I go?" And here begins the long, slow, exquisite resolution of the drama: the story of how the mother dies in order that Apu may live as he was meant to live. The mother gives and gives, the son takes and takes. The only thanks she gets are sulks, or at best indifference. Her heart bleeds, but she is wise enough to understand that in hurting his mother he is only trying to end his dependence...
...wrote Mark Twain. "I wish to keep that fact plainly before the readers. If I were alive I would be writing an autobiography on the normal plan." There was certainly nothing normal and no plan about his autobiography. He began writing it at 42 and believed that it "would live a couple of thousand years." When he died at 74, in 1910, he left about 500,000 words of notes, scraps, reminiscence and recrimination...