Word: seraphs
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...Seraph: Just for the record, will you state for the Committee your name, address and present occupation...
...past. For the actor, the new season holds out the hope of a breakthrough to fame -after which he tends to abandon the theater like a Brando or a Burton. The producer nourishes the hone of a croupier to rake in the chips. The backer, that garishly garbed seraph who roots for his cash on opening night with cacophonous enthusiasm, hopes for some sort of glittering new social credential and the consolation prize of a virtually guaranteed tax loss. The critic approaches the new season like an Israelite at the edge of the Red Sea-perhaps the surging waters...
...Retarded Children for "awakening the nation to the problems and for proving in countless ways that the retarded can be helped," brought the total gifts from the Kennedy Foundation to $225,000. Each award winner also received a soaring Gothic form in crystal, engraved with a figure of the seraph Raphael (the name means "God heals") holding a child in his arms...
Died. Zora Neale Hurstoh, 57, Florida-born Negro author who explored the world of Negro folklore and magic in remote parts of the South and the West Indies, celebrated the big trials and small triumphs of the Southern Negro in a series of novels (Jonah's Gourd Vine, Seraph on the Suwanee) without succumbing to bitterness; in Fort Pierce...
...itself to me." De spite his interest in the neighbor's piano, the Bernsteins never had a musical instrument in the house until Lennie was ten. Then they were saddled with a "brown upright horror" that Aunt Clara wanted to get rid of. To Lennie it sounded like a seraph's harp. His reluctant parents ? who really hoped he might go into the beauty- parlor-supply business ? allowed him to have piano lessons...