Word: abelard
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Whitman won the 1958 Christian Gauss Prize for his work on Homer. He authored a volume of poetry, "Orpheus and the Moon Craters" (1941), and a long narrative poem, "Abelard...
...Women contemplating abortion can now turn for advice to a concise and straightforward book written by a young New York mother under the auspices of Planned Parenthood of New York City. Abortion: A Woman's Guide (Abelard-Schuman; $5.95 or $2.95 paperback) begins with a discussion of the emotional complexities of terminating pregnancy, goes on to describe abortion techniques in nontechnical terms and concludes with an essay on fertility control. For those who are uneasy about abortion, there is also an index of clergy consultation services and Planned Parenthood affiliates across the country. The text is written with unusual...
...Warsaw, on 20th December 1963," Kolakowski impersonates Satan in a remarkable exhibition of incontestable sophistry; he argues for his own existence in a discredulous age along the lines that his very strength lies in the fact that he does not exist. In other soliloquies, notably in one given by Abelard's Heloise in defense of the flesh and in another given by a student of sexual exorcism, Kolakowski indicts Christianity for its contempt of the body, and by implication, of this world. While this second section is not so successful nor so concise as the first, it is more ambitious...
...really determine whether Love Story has saturated the lovestory market. If not, Abelard & Heloise may glow at the box office despite its sallow dramatic complexion. "Inspired" by Helen Waddell's novel Peter Abelard, and the love letters of Heloise and Abelard, the play actually belongs in the company of operettas, historical romances and three-handkerchief movies. Critical duty virtually stops there; the people who like this sort of thing do so invariably, and the people...
Diana Rigg as Heloise and Keith Michell as Abelard are lovers not so much star-crossed as celluloid-spliced. A playgoer might even feel that he was watching an ad trailer from the film-to-be. Thrill to A & H in a nude scene played in one-watt lighting. Chill as A is symbolically castrated by some sinister leprechauns left over from a ballet of yesteryear. Hiss the uncle. Chortle with a tipsy canon (Ronald Radd) and a tipsier abbess (Jacqueline Brookes). So much for medieval color. In dialogue. Playwright Millar has spared his audience the one line that...