Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Malcolm (Matthew Cowles) is a 15-year-old who looks like frosting and is chock-full of Innocence. A kind of satanic hotelier takes him in tow and dispatches him, like one of nature's naivest bellboys, to the fetid rooms of earthly existence. Along the way, there is a series of symbolic betrayals: by friendship (in the person of an ancient coot in a Confederate uniform); by wealth (in the form of an alcoholic hag and her fluttery entourage of butterfly boys); by art (as represented by a seedy writer-painter couple); and by sex in the nymphomaniacal...
...Biological weapons have not yet been perfected. Viruses contain small molecules which can be unpredictably changed by enzymes in the human body. This makes it impossible to measure a weapon's degree of toxicity. We must assume that all are potentially lethal," said Matthew S. Meselson, professor of Biology and a member of the group, at a press conference here yesterday...
...Matthew Nimetz, who graduated from the Law School last year, is now a clerk for Harlan and will spend next year in that position also...
...clients-by accepting part of their liability for claims arising from natural catastrophe or human accident. On the broad marble staircase of the company's châteauesque lakeside headquarters stands a baroque statue of St. Florian, who is regarded as a protector against natural disasters. Says Matthew Klaas, 63, one of Swiss Re's two general managers: "Last year St. Florian let us down...
...this supernaturalistic event did not take place, as unbelievers hold, it requires a natural explanation, and many have been offered. The Gospel According to Matthew says that on learning of the empty tomb, Jewish leaders spread the story that the disciples had stolen Christ's body. Celsus, a 2nd century anti-Christian polemicist, suggested that the Resurrection was a figment of Mary Magdalene's unbalanced mind. Sir James Frazer depicted the Resurrection as a variation of the Osiris, Attis and Adonis legends, symbolizing the death and rebirth of nature. French Author Pierre Nahor wrote that Jesus...