Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SMITHSONIAN (NBC, 12:30-1 p.m.). "Dem Dry Bones" explains how scientists trace the history of the earth through the study of ancient bones. Repeat...
...libretto's demands are preposterous enough: the theme derives from the ethics and rituals of Freemasonry as practiced in ancient Egypt. But Chagall's temple scenes, peopled with a host of priests clothed in garish colors, came off as something resembling a psychedelic initiation rite at the local Masonic temple...
...account, not so much of the murder, as of their own thwarted hopes and twisted lives. The 34-year-old deserted wife of a café owner has been sleeping with her handy man, a boy young enough to be her son. Another woman, admired for supporting her ancient, mentally enfeebled mother, actually beats the old lady. Eldritch also has its girlish flibbertigibbets (Susan Tyrrell and Katherine Bruce), its freak, a hunchbacked girl, and its leper, a whiskery derelict whom the local toughs mock with cries of "baaa!, baaa!" because he supposedly was once seen in an act of bestiality...
...lead to common prayer. One example is the ecumenical parish created by the uniting of Los Angeles' First Presbyterian Church and the University Methodist Church. This marriage of convenience was born out of desperation in 1965 when the Presbyterians borrowed the Methodist church for worship after their own ancient structure was condemned as unsafe. At first, the two congregations took turns using the Methodist church for worship. Last summer they began holding joint services, and now the ministers of the two congregations share the responsibilities of presiding at Sunday worship. On a recent Sunday, for example, Presbyterian Logan Barnes...
...will "not "brazenly go out and propagate himself," Bonner predicts coolly, but will contribute sperm cells to a central bank, his heirs to be manufactured after his death if a committee decides that he has been a desirable and useful figure in society. On this forecast, echoing the ancient complaint against Plato's "Guardians," English Professor Ritchie Calder comments...