Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since Paul preached on the Hill of Mars." Member of a famous evangelical family (Harriet Beecher Stowe, who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, was his sister), he had packed in the parishioners at Brooklyn's big Plymouth Church for 23 years. Then, at 57, and at the peak of his influence, he was accused of practicing what he preached against. "On the night of July 3, 1870,'' writes Author Robert Shaplen. "Elizabeth Richards Tilton, a small, dark-haired woman of 35, the mother of four children, confessed to her husband, Theodore, that she had committed adultery...
Some of the film's touches recall the days when there wasn't even a suggestion, in English comedies, of straining for sly humor and droll situation. For example, while the meek here waits in the street, three women wrangle over his future in progressively laundering voices. At the peak of feminine fury a revival parade marches by, bearing a banner: BEEWARE THE WRATH TO COME. These unexpected dividends of chuckles, like the prize in Crackerjack, are the more welcome for being quite detached from the plot and from one's expectations...
When the setting sun tints the snowy slope of Popocatepetl, the 17,887-ft. volcano seems to float majestically beside its twin peak Ixtacihuatl, in the thin air over Mexico City. To tourists looking out from their hotel windows, the rosy mountain is enchanting. But to the primitive Indians living in the village of Amecameca at the volcano's base, it is frightening. Centuries ago their ancestors cast human sacrifices into the crater's fiery maw. Today Popocatepetl sleeps, but the Indians of Amecameca are sure that it is still hungry and jealous of its rights...
...Irresistible Challenge. Popo, as even the Indians call the tongue-twisting peak, exacts its toll nowadays from the young and the strong who, year after year, feel the irresistible challenge to climb the mountain. After eleven climbers had lost their lives in 1953, government authorities stepped in to regulate the traffic of alpinists. They prohibited ascents when the weather was threatening, and required each climber to have a safe minimum of alpine gear for the venture. The precautions seemed to work; ten months passed without a casualty on Popo...
...exhausted young man staggered into a climbers' base camp with word that an avalanche had overtaken a party of five men and three women under the crater's rim. He had heard the thunder of the slide, then screams in the cloud haze that enveloped the peak. Groping through the darkness and swirling snow, he found a youth and a girl, half buried and moaning with pain. Their companions were lost somewhere in the snow...