Word: mortalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some what smaller than life, hunting hyperbole more than made up for it. Gaston even went so far as to suggest that sportsmen had a head start on heaven. "By hunting, one avoids the sin of indolence," he reasoned. "And according to our faith, he who avoids the seven mortal sins will be saved; therefore, the good sportsmen will be saved." Popes Julius II, Leo X and Pius II-who wrote his own treatise on venery under his Christian name, Aeneas Silvius-all enthusiastically rode to hounds. And while papal edict forbade monks to hunt, the church gave its blessing...
Because the story has no conventional plot development, it is at its interior that the film shines. In the title role, Bates' indomitable intelligence radiates through the rough peasant vocabulary and makes Yakov too mortal...
...second problem-the one that caused last week's tremors-is the main, and perhaps mortal weakness of the monetary system. While nations that belong to the IMF are obliged to try to keep their currency-exchange rates steady, there is no stipulation that they keep their international payments in balance at the prevailing exchange rate. The result is all too frequent imbalances in international payments, which put new strains on the monetary system...
...room with the guy on road trips, and he certainly seems mortal." -- Calvin Hill, a football player...
Sheer Will Power. Top Manhattan Model Peggy Moffitt first flew at the age of seven, and used to commute to California by plane; now she travels only by train. Why the changeover? "Nothing dramatic," she says, "I just got married, and that made me feel mortal." Most groundlings trace the beginning of their phobia to an especially hairy flight. Jackie Gleason swore off flying in the 1940s when the plane on which he was a California-to-New York passenger lost two engines and landed in a Midwest wheatfield. Old Trouper Jimmy Durante also dates his dislike of flying...