Word: manne
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Moses was born in New York City, received an M.A. in philosophy at Harvard in 1957, and taught mathematics at the Horace Mann School in New York. He first went to Mississippi in 1961, as a Field Secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee...
...shambling plot follows a callow Parisian bank clerk (Claude Mann) who gets high on beginner's luck and decides to court Dame Fortune at the Cannes Casino. Unfortunately, he meets another dame. Moreau appears, a battered divorcee who has already sacrificed her marriage, her child, and her jewels to the corruptive religion of chance. Gambling is her life, she confesses. "Nothing else gives me as much pleasure. I just need one chip to be happy." To turn her luck, the chip-happy harpy latches onto the clerk. They win big and lose big, make love, win again...
...turbine in the liveliest role. The engine propels a futuristic racing car, developed and assembled by Chrysler Corp. The rest of the cast, Hollywood-assembled, is made up mostly of bright, well-developed young folk-among them James Darren, Pamela Tiffin, Doug McClure, Joanie Sommers and Peter Mann-who are lovely to look at but not much fun to know...
...English 257) Dant'e Alighieri (Italian 120) Charles Dickens (English 259a) Fyodor Dostoevsky (Slavic 155) Jonathan Edwards (English 276) T.S. Eliot (English 267) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German 120) Nikolai Gogol (Slavic 154) Henrik Ibsen (Scandinavian 1) Immanuel Kant (Philosophy 130) John Keats (English 256) Lucretius (Latin 107a) Thomas Mann (German 285) Michelangelo Buonarroti (Fine Arts 257) John Milton (English 131) Freidrich Nietzsche (Philosophy 235) Pindar (Philosophy 278b) Plato (Classical Philology 236b, Philosophy 102) Aleksander Pushkin (Slavic 152) H.H. Richardson (Fine Arts 274) Rainer Maria Rilke (German 269) Friedrich Schiller (German 113) William Shakespeare (English 124, English 229) Edmund Spenser...
...history of the McComb COFO project really begins in July, 1961, when Robert Moses entered that area as a SNCC field secretary. Moses, a Negro from Harlem, had studied philosophy at Harvard Graduate School and taught mathematics at Horace Mann before he joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC...