Word: bags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When is this awful windbag going to collapse and stay collapsed like his poetical "burlap bag"? . .-. With Protestantism cutting up such didoes, no wonder the Catholic Church is gaining ground every year...
...your fine articles on Billy Graham [Oct. 25] and Dr. Norman Vincent Peale [Nov. 1]. Dr. Peale attracts thousands with seven psychiatrists and his Pollyanna Gospel. What lady would want to "relax and be a bag!" Graham faces the facts of life and preaches the Gospel with hellfire. It wins the respect of millions. I'll take Billy Graham. (THE REV.) JOHN R. STEVENSON Burns Presbyterian Church Burns...
...after hours they take their eurythmics in the grove. Grandpa is delighted to meet Adam ("I liked the look of your sartorius muscle as soon as I saw you"), and invites him to a meal of peanutburgers. That night Athena sends Adam home with tokens of her love: a bag of raw vegetables and a bar bell...
...simple soul is Frodo Baggins of Bag End, who has been bequeathed the ring by a rich old cousin. Frodo is a hobbit. Hobbits are under three feet tall, eat six meals a day, like to give parties, and both the rich and the poor live in holes. Hobbits are "soft as butter . . . and yet sometimes as tough as old tree-roots." In the end, of course, hobbits turn out to be more like people than people. Frodo is a happy hobbit who whiles away his "tweens"-the "irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three." Only...
...French say they will not negotiate the Algerian question-that revolt on the soil of Algeria is treason. "The only negotiation," said Interior Minister Francois Mitterrand, "is war." The Algerian nationalists have an answer: "La valise ou le cercueil"-meaning, if you don't take a traveling bag, you will get a coffin...