Word: augustine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book, Island of Death (J. J. Augustin; $7), Dr. Werner Wolff, professor of psychology at Bard College, N.Y., tackles the problem with a "psychological" approach. There is plenty of scattered information about Easter Island, says Dr. Wolff. Why not fit the pieces together and use psychological insight to reconstruct the island's ancient culture? Then the mystery of the statues might be solved...
...When Augustin Daly [and Joseph Howard] dramatized the novel (Worrell Sisters' New York Theater, Nov. 11, 1867), he expanded Beecher's . . . character into a major part for Miss Jennie Worrell, the youngest of the three famed theatrical sisters...
...tired little man in a dark civilian suit advanced toward each other. At midstream the two men snipped a ceremonial tape, then embraced. Thus, last week, after many postponements, Argentina's President Juan Perón and Brazil's President Caspar Eurico Dutra inaugurated the Augustin Justo bridge that links their countries...
...With the late, great Producer Augustin Daly...
...Simeon Stylites is likely to seem a kind of 5th-Century Shipwreck Kelly*-a symbol of ascetic reductio ad absurdum. To that view, his 38-year residence atop a pillar was only a Syrian sideshow that attracted the curious. The vulgar error of a vulgar age, says Father Augustin C. Wand, S.J., in the current American Ecclesiastical Review. "Simeon the Stylite is not a character about whom we Catholics need to be apologetic...