Word: revelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...absent-minded magician performs a couple of genuine miracles, transforming wine into water and raising a man from the dead. The show under the big top is even more spectacular. It offers a unicorn that pops balloons with its horn, a sphinx that asks riddles, a Walpurgisnacht revel attended by witches and presided over by Satan himself and, for the jaded, the sacrifice of a beautiful virgin...
JEAN-FRANÇOIS REVEL, French author (Neither Marx nor Jesus): A great leader has original ideas and succeeds in having them accepted by millions or billions. These ideas can be wonderful or dreadful. Thus I have chosen the Athenian philosopher Epicurus and Adolf Hitler-the best and the worst. Epicurus because he defined a model way of life that was followed and is still followed today by many billions of people, which makes them happy without hurting anyone. Hitler because he had as much influence, although of an evil sort, through his ideas, which meant misery and destruction...
...those currents flowing with him after he settles in at the Elysée. For a man who has been in public life for so long, he is, apart from his fiscal views, a surprisingly unknown quantity. Some political analysts, like L'Express Editor Jean-François Revel, feel that Giscard has proved himself a good Finance Minister and therefore will be a good President, a man who sees with clarity the problems and needs of his people. Others are not so sure. "Giscard never had a vision of the social problems of France in this campaign," says...
...with leaders of European politics, business, the church and the press. He talked with, among many others, Italy's Prince Nicolo Pignatelli, the oilman who is president of Gulf Italiana; Spain's Vincente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancón; France's Jean-François Revel, author and columnist for the weekly L'Express; and Britain's Roy Hattersley, Minister for European Affairs. "The changes in leadership all over the Continent have implications that go beyond the confines of the countries themselves," says Elson. "I got the sense that this is a bad time...
...film does have problems. But they have little to do with race, liberality or mushiness. Ritt, Ravetch and Frank revel in the grotesque. The school superintendent and principal (glosses of groups of figures from Conroy's book) are educational Bull Connors. More interesting characters, like the island's hermit Mad Billie, and a fast-talking island slicker named Quickfellow, have neither history nor room for growth. The filmmakers also fail to develop some intriguing themes: Conroy must have influenced his children's lives beyond the classroom, but when their usually stand-offish parents strike to protest Conroy's dismissal, there...