Word: sur
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...most entertaining discoveries in Kraus's The Living Theatre of Medieval Art (Indiana University Press; $15) concerns the tympanum of the abbey church at Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne, probably the earliest (circa A.D. 1130) monumental portrayal of the Judgment Day. Until Kraus came along, scholars had assumed that seven little men at Christ's feet represented souls of the blessed and the damned rising from their graves. Kraus, however, noted that they were clothed instead of naked, contrary to customary portrayals of souls, and that all were men (normally, some would be women). While four were either praying...
Rockefeller, the man who wasn't there, still will not go away. As Romney slipped down the polls, Rocky shinnied up. The Gallup poll indicated that the New York Governor would beat President Johnson, 48% to 46%, in an immediate election. In a Lou Harris sur vey, Rocky took over as L.B.J.'s strongest potential challenger (just trailing, 43% to 44%), while Romney fell to fourth. In a poll of California's Republican state legislators, 31% said that they personally hoped Rockefeller would get the nomination...
...curious lesson in feeling took place at California's Esalen Institute, 35 miles south of Carmel in the Big Sur country, where a staff of uninhibited social scientists are engaged in the new technique of "sensitivity training." Their aim is to make business executives, doctors, lawyers, Peace Corpsmen and assorted self-searching women more aware of themselves and of their "authentic" relations with others through sensual and physical rather than verbal experience. Such sensitivity training is suddenly in vogue across the nation to help community leaders, clergymen and businessmen in their dealings with people. Some 350 officials...
...isolation was brutal. Stalin sur rounded his "little housekeeper" with NKVD agents and made her a prisoner shifted between Kremlin and countryside. The description of her first love affair at 17 becomes an episode in the life of a girl who for the first time since her mother's death feels the pull of approval by another human being. The man was a 40-year-old film director, Alexei Kapler. When Stalin had the whole story-telephone transcriptions, letters, trysts-he ordered Kapler arrested as a British spy, had him sentenced to ten years of exile and prison...
...success was balm in her tragic years. In 1848, she buried Branwell; soon after, both Emily and Anne died of consumption. Charlotte fell in love with Arthur Bell Nicholls, the Haworth curate. Her father begged her not to marry because he feared she was too small and frail to sur vive pregnancy. He was right. After a few months of marriage in which she was amazed at her own happiness, Charlotte died of tuberculosis and complications of pregnancy. She was 39. The curse on the Brontes was more implacable than any Charlotte's imagination could devise...