Word: remnants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Heart will be called a woman's picture, possibly because it is old hat, old shoes, and hasn't got a thing to put on that everyone hasn't seen a dozen times before. Its heroine is the familiar small-town spinster who stands at the remnant counter of life trying to talk herself into a Big Splurge...
...Layman Michael Novak warns that even if the institutional church withers away, another will eventually take its place, and that "there is no way of so organizing life that holiness and vitality are guaranteed." He also points out that those who talk of the militant church for the chosen remnant tend to sound a trifle holier-than-thou...
...rainbow-clad company whirls through its paces like a hurricane at a remnant counter. Chita Rivera is a one-woman atomic pile, and her dances are radioactive. The book is carefully thought out, and if the music is merely passable, the lyrics are intelligent...
...Island of Corsica is notorious for its ill-tempered Cap Corse aperitifs, its vile figatelli sausage, and Napoleon, who left it as soon as he could. It is not known for art; yet the capital of Ajaccio (pop. 32,000) has a rich remnant of what was once one of Europe's greatest collections. Ajaccio used to think that the thousand paintings in the municipal museum were fakes, but the late Bernard Berenson disproved that judgment in 1959. Now the collection is becoming a focus of European art interest...
...film as in the book, the heroine is a maiden named Karana, the daughter of a Chumash chief. When the chief and most of his warriors are slaughtered by a treacherous fur trader, the discouraged remnant migrates to the mainland. But Karana's little brother misses the boat. "He will die!" Karana screams as she leaps from the ship's dory and strikes out for the shore...