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Emotional arguments for God came into vogue, and an age that was swept with religious revivals looked to John Wesley's "heart strangely warmed." Highbrow believers harked back to Blaise Pascal, who found no God in nature; Pascal put his faith in mystical experience and the idea that God's existence coincides with human aspiration...
Died. Gabriel Pascal, 60, cinemadapter of the plays of George Bernard Shaw; after long illness; in Manhattan. Penniless in 1935 when he crumbled Shaw's notorious resistance to movie versions, stormy...
Hungarian-born Perfectionist Pascal rose to fame and fortune with Pygmalion (1938). went on to make a career of producing G.B.S. on the screen (Major Barbara, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles and the Lion), won the Irish master's rare rating of "genius...
...century of fascinating contrasts. Literature nourished. Corneille, Racine, Moliere, La Fontaine turned out their masterpieces; Pascal wrote his Pensees, Descartes his Discourse on Method. Medicine, meanwhile, was in a parlous state. In one year, Louis XIII was bled 47 times, got 212 enemas. Louis XIV got the same kind of treatment, but, despite everything his physicians did, he survived for 77 years. By that time, he had done his full part to prepare the deluge...
Beauties of the Night (Franco-London; United Artists). "If a workman were sure of dreaming every night that he was a king," wrote Blaise Pascal, "I believe he would be almost as happy as a king who dreamt every night that he was a workman." Borrowing plots from great philosophers is a quick way to get out of the movie business, but this time the borrower is René Clair (Sous les Toits de Paris, Le Million), a man as skillful with pictures as Pascal was with ideas. The result is a wonderfully natty little reductio ad absurdum-"all bird...