Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They are strewn across a desolate landscape along the Maine coast like pebbles on the beach. Looking like scattered desert plants, wooden shacks and suburban pre-fabs just out of the ground with random incongruity. The paths have no names, few of the houses are numbered. This is an Indian village, changed, yet unchanged from centuries ago. Children play, dogs breed wild. Noises, the restless sea, the rush of a lonely car, wind. People are building...
After high school, the young comic did an existential somersault. He enrolled in Long Beach State and studied philosophy "like crazy." He recalls: "I got to a point where I could no longer speak." When after three years he began reading Ludwig Wittgenstein, who declared that if philosophical problems are solved, "little is achieved," Martin dropped back into show business. But he still likes to ponder philosophical problems. "I know all the important ethical questions," he tells audiences, "like is it O.K. to yell movie in a crowded firehouse...
Since its inception, the Crosby Pro-Am has always been played at Pebble Beach, perhaps the greatest course in the world, but the first two rounds are now played on two other courses on the Monterey Peninsula, Cypress Point and Spyglass...
Unlike earlier music programs for children, this one does not toe the classical line. In an allegro collage that threatens the viewer with musical vertigo, the initial program arcs from the Beach Boys to Beethoven, Indian sitar music to music of the Renaissance, the Vienna Boys Choir to the Olympia Brass Band of New Orleans. In subsequent episodes, the series settles down to explore the major elements of music: rhythm, melody, harmony, style. Sidlin provides comic relief as, at a flick of his baton, he changes from conductor to the Melody Doctor or to the loudmouthed host of What...
...loud but small: the larger parishes are remaining loyal. But there is potential for dramatic skirmishes in the next year or two, especially if courts rule that departing parishes can retain their property. As if to remind the bishops of the threat, a parish in nearby West Palm Beach became the 18th to quit the denomination. It will join the emerging "Anglican Church of North America," which was proclaimed last month at an emotional rally of 1,750 traditionalists in St. Louis. Besides women priests, the group protests modernization of the church's liturgy, the Book of Common Prayer...