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...Died. Gabriel Marcel, 83, French dramatist, critic, musician and philosopher; of a heart attack; in Paris. A Roman Catholic and a pioneering existentialist who preferred the designation "Neo-Socratic," Marcel rejected abstract thinking as a solution to man's moral problems. Instead, he struggled to define a concrete philosophy that would help man find, in the sense of his own being and in his unselfish love of others, an approach to God. Marcel's best-known books were Metaphysical Journal (1927), Being and Having (1935) and The Mystery of Being (1951). -Died. Ludwig von Mises, 92, Austrian-born...
...earlier Italian neo-realistic film, Roberto Rossellini's Paisan (1946), is at Harvard-Epworth. This personal, improvisatory journal of six human encounters during the Battle of Sicily is, for many people, even more moving than Bicycle Thief, but has never had equal mass appeal...
Died. Anna Magnani, 65, disheveled diva of Italian and American films; of cancer of the pancreas; in Rome. With her brooding, baggy eyes, Magnani emerged as one of Italy's best actresses after her 1945 role in Open City, a neo-realistic film of the Nazi occupation of Rome. Awarded an Oscar in 1956 for her portrayal of a truck driver's wife in The Rose Tattoo, her first Hollywood movie, the indomitable Magnani went on to star in The Fugitive Kind and The Secret of Santa Vittoria. Her well-publicized love life included a long affair with...
...churches that grew out of a turn-of-the-century burst of religious enthusiasm for a direct experience of God through the Holy Spirit. Now numbering a claimed 20 million adherents worldwide, the "classicals" at the Korean conference were joined by enthusiasts from more recent Pentecostal flowerings. Many neo-Pentecostals from Presbyterian, Anglican and other mainstream churches also attended, and a sprinkling of Catholic priests in Roman collars represented the burgeoning Catholic Charismatic movement (TIME, June...
...Auden soon found the crisis theology of Reinhold Niebuhr. It was a grim neo-Calvinism in which God is Wholly Other and man's individual guilt and anxiety can be submerged (if not assuaged) by a crushing awareness of general human depravity and the resultant difficulty in finding grace. In his most famous single work, The Age of Anxiety (for which, in 1948, he became the first foreign-born poet ever to win the Pulitzer Prize), he offered a repetitive, four-character charade running through all the ages and spiritual stages of modern man. Few are charming, none...