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...woman who would rather have top billing than top cooing. Enjoying a last fling at youth, Julia tucks away her qualms, reaches for her checkbook and asks her swain: "How can I thank you?" He knows. So does she. "I haven't cried since The Stricken Heart,'" she soliloquizes unhappily. When she realizes she has been made a fool of, however, Julia refuses to play the castoff older woman. She plots a worldly vengeance that firmly establishes the triumph of age over youth, then goes off to indulge in a high-caloric orgy of forbidden foods...
...World War II, Castello Branco is a lover of good music, reads avidly in four languages, has lived in both France and the U.S., and is reported to have a deep social conscience about the problems that dog Brazil. Much of his career was spent in the poverty-stricken, drought-devastated northeast. He was not one of the first plotters of the revolt, and thought long and hard before lending his weight to it. "We have toppled a government of the extreme left," Castello Branco said after his election. "We will not form a government of the extreme right...
...poverty-stricken Northeastern Brazil, a peasant named Ze, honoring the saint who spared the life of his injured donkey, carries a cross "as heavy as Christ's" 30 miles to the Church of Santa Barbara in Bahia. In the city, Ze's wife Rosa is seduced by a sneering pimp. Next morning a vindictive priest refuses to let Ze enter the church, scorning his promise to the saint as a pagan vow made through an intermediary god at a macumba ceremony. "Black magic," cries the priest. Ze shakes his head sadly. "My church has no image of Santa...
...Cambridge to see the German film version of Goethe's Faust shown at the Loeb Theatre; for he had waged an ardent campaign to stimulate a fully staged production of this classic in Harvard's new playhouse. It is also fitting that his editorial appearing the day he was stricken dealt with Aeschylus' Oresteia; for it was occasioned by the forthcoming Adams House production, and concerned the work he loved most in the world...
...where he wins a huge following and prepares his first book, inspired by the simple dictum that "together, you and God can do anything." In the controversy arising from Positive Thinking, Peale begins to doubt, but dramatically resolves his doubts when he is called to the bedside of another stricken child...