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...chorus, a thunderous "Amen!" from the stamp of heavy shoes and the clap of hairless hands. Youth spilled out last Friday night like so much combustible gas, gathered as a gust and bright balloon, rose, burst with a desultory bang, and was gone. Leaving only the silence of the morning after...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: We Shall Survive | 11/19/1957 | See Source »

...name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost Amen. I promise and vow to Almighty God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, before the whole company of heaven, and be-you, my Fathers, that I will live in celibacy, poverty, and obedience, as one of the Mission Priests of St. John the Evangelist unto my life's end. So help...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Monastery Hides Near MTA | 10/25/1957 | See Source »

...critics-who generally understand music 50 years after the public-Mr. Menotti's music should be commended for its honesty, simplicity and clarity. Ah, let's see, what else? Oh yes, he died without a penny. No one was especially overjoyed by his death. Pray for him. Amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 12, 1957 | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

This is a reactionary little exercise in nostalgia which will have a whole generation of fathers shaking their heads and murmuring, "Amen!" Novelist Robert Paul (So It Doesn't Whistle) Smith writes bluntly from the notion that, for small boys growing up, the good old days were best. The point is illustrated by the dialogue of the title-"Where Did You Go?" "Out." "What Did You Do?" "Nothing." Author Smith's belief is that today's parent too often knows where his boy has been, and that in all probability he or some teacher or other tiresome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pop Is No Pal | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

...Amen, Cartoonist Al (Li'I Abner) Capp. May your tribe increase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 18, 1957 | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

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