Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest problem is that there's no one in the cast with a good sense of timing. I admit I am prejudiced: I am obsessed by timing. Perhaps I make too much of it. But it does seem the key to power and effectiveness and tension and drama and all those other things critics mention when they've been impressed but they don't know...
...second papal change touched on the sore issue of Biblical error. Catholic Biblical scholars admit that on a factual level the Bible does make mistakes-Daniel, for example, calls King Darius a Mede when he was certainly a Persian. The drafters of the decree on revelation wrote that the Bible presents "salvific truth"-that is, the right knowledge of those things concerned with man's salvation. Pope Paul insisted that salvific be dropped...
Bobby checks out of town on a business trip, but returns unexpectedly and bumps into her again. Ashamed to admit that she lives in a depressed area (Washington Square, apparently), Sandra lets him escort her "home" to his flat, saying it's hers. The rest is a comedy of confusion involving His harried boss (Donald O'Connor), Her door-slamming roommate (Nita Talbot), some cozy dinners (duck a I'orange) and other misfortunes. Put them all together, they add up to Funny Feeling. Take a couple of aspirins first and it'll hardly be noticed...
...During the fruitless questioning of James R. Jones, 37, the Klan's Grand Dragon of North Carolina, his attorney explained that Jones was having trouble understanding the questions because "he does not have a high-school education." Virginia's Grand Dragon, Robert Kornegay, 37, would not even admit that he was a U.S. citizen. The request that most clearly affronted Shelton and his reluctant dragons was the Congressmen's repeated demands for financial records...
...hell," Morgan recalls. "I made a speech I'd written that morning. When I got through, everyone applauded, and someone moved to admit a Negro to membership in the club. Like everything else in Birmingham, it died for want of a second...