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...KING RENÉ'S BOOK OF LOVE. Introduction and commentaries by F. Unterkircher. Braziller. $15. During the waning of the Middle Ages, these illuminated manuscripts lighted lives. The medieval characters are allegorical: the Knight Cueur confronts the enemies of Love-Denial, Shame and Fear-in his search for the Lady Sweet Grace. He finds his lady-only to lose her again, and end his days in prayer and remembrance. The story, Cueur d'Amours Espris, was written in 1457; the gold-trimmed illustrations were executed a decade later-possibly by the King himself. An informative commentary precedes each...
Boliva's actions seemed a show of pique that might well pass as soon as the government found out who was paid off. The only name Gulf has disclosed so far is that of René Barrientos, Bolivia's President from 1964 to 1969, who received a $ 110,000 helicopter from Gulf in exchange for doing what he could to forestall nationalization and assure the company of lucrative drilling rights in Bolivia. (Barrientos died in a helicopter crash six years ago; officials assert the chopper was not the craft purchased by Gulf.) Still to be accounted...
...drastic currency devaluations-that a few kilos of gold buried in a flower garden are sometimes the only insurance against personal financial disaster. Almost half of the entire 8,900 tons of gold held privately in Europe is in France. Today's French goldbug, says Paris Financial Editor René Sedillot, "is apt to be a peasant or a workingman, not a sophisticated capitalist. It's no use telling such hoarders that they ought to buy stocks. In their eyes, gold is a tried and true friend. It's part of the setting of their daily lives...
...their presuppositions. Like them, he felt that the New Testament's supernatural world view was intolerable to modern man, but he believed that the liberals were on the wrong track in trying to reconstruct the teachings of a historical Jesus. Schooled in the thought of Martin Heidegger and Sören Kierkegaard, Bultmann was convinced that the Christian message, or kerygma (from the Greek "proclamation"), must be something more existentially powerful. One clue to the message, he thought, lay in the beliefs of the first Christian communities where the Gospel was preached, and their perception of Christ from their own situation...
...fund was apparently started as an investment scheme for religious organizations about five years ago by Father René Sauvé, a La Salette priest with a good reputation as a money manager. Father Sauvé has refused to talk about the fund, but it seems to have been a commonplace investment operation: church groups would raise money by borrowing or selling bonds, expecting that the return on the invested proceeds would be high enough to leave a profit over and above the costs of interest and amortization. Bishop Joseph Green of Reno saw the plan...