Word: teresa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chile, where it rains so hard (104 inches a year) that mist is almost a sign of fine weather. There María-Luísa's heroine, Helga, a love child, falls in love with Daniel, the boy next door. But Daniel marries Helga's cousin Teresa, who commits suicide. Helga becomes his second wife. Because she knows that Daniel still loves Teresa, she spends a night with a handsome interloper. Later, Daniel falls in love with Helga, and proves to Helga's satisfaction that her night with the interloper was only a dream. To censor...
...mystical tradition is sustained by many poets and intellectuals, for example, T. S. Eliot. And the direct experience of God is still available to any man capable of enough suffering, renunciation and self-conquest. Across time and space the great mystics share their discovery. Dostoevsky and St. Teresa bear witness to identical ecstasies. The visions of many a saint are echoed in these words by the late flyer Saint-Exupéry, who alone above the clouds found himself "enclosed as in the precincts of a temple," where, "by the grace of an ordeal ... which stripped you of all that...
...Best Years of Our Lives. A story about returning veterans; William Wyler's inspired direction gets some inspired acting out of Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright and Harold Russell (TIME...
Genaro had become an important man in Mexico. Lots of history had been made over his head, and it is his proudest boast that he has never repeated a word he has heard in the presidential office. Teresa, daughter of an Army officer, was proud to marry him-and is prouder now of their nine children, six of them sons. Says Genaro with quiet assurance: "I have talked with our ambassadors who have seen the feet of many of the world's rulers. They tell me my work is the equal of anything in Europe or America, superior...
...Best Years of Our Lives. Director William Wyler's postwar concert on the heartstrings, eloquently performed by Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy and Teresa Wright (TIME...