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...series to the Heart of Light. Suddenly "transhumanized," the poet is swiftly borne upward through the heavens as "a falling rill that plunges from a mountain to the depths." Beatrice precedes him, and on the way they encounter the shining spirits of the saved-among them Justinian, Charles Martel, St. Thomas, Solomon, Charlemagne and St. Benedict. As Dante's spirit soars toward God, his lines soar into a region of mystical incandescence...
...reprinted piece by Martel W. Davis is excellent. He writes of the patronization and hypocrisy he found at Yale with sensitivity. Yet Davis sounds as if he believes no perceptive Negro can conceivably disagree with him, and this is simply not the case. Some Negroes here do believe Harvard is a sanctuary, inasmuch as one exists, where race is not in the eyes of every passer-by. Davis describes a bull-session at Andover where one of his classmates screamed at him "God, what an asshole." "Tears," said Davis, "welled up in my eyes. His words struck...
Married. Christiane Martel, 25, Miss Universe of 1953 and sometime cinemactress; and Miguel Aleman Jr., 29, handsome son of Mexico's ex-President; she for the second time, he for the first; in Mexico City...
...student followers and strode about, impressive in his paratrooper uniform of camouflage cloth, looking-with his neatly trimmed beard and mustache-like a well-barbered Fidel Castro. Burly, olive-skinned Jo Ortiz led the slum contingents instead of setting up drinks in his Forum bar. Pious Robert Martel had brought in the farmers who belonged to his "Movement...
Figuratively Speaking. In Hollywood, the total wardrobe costs of the movie Adam and Eve, filmed in Mexico and starring Christiane Martel (Miss France and Miss Universe of 1953) came to $2.63 for fig leaves...