Word: bless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tradition, he splashes his tales with emphatic "Oh, Lord's" and resounding laughs. As he drives around his 380-acre campus in a canvas-topped Oldsmobile 98, he waves to students and invites visits to his office. There, a small plaque on his desk proclaims LOVE YOUR ENEMIES; BLESS THEM THAT CURSE YOU. Says Jones: "I'm a front-row, 'amen' Baptist deacon...
...lunch the other day, sitting with an actor, I remembered the first time I saw Citizen Kane. He remembered too, and we compared gurgled memories of How It Was the First Time. This is a fairly routine thing to discuss, I realize; in New York, Oxnard, Peru, Indiana, and bless it, Kaplan, Louisiana, hums of versation rising from cafeteria tables like locust clouds, and if you poll each little bug here's what he'll say: "The first time I saw Fred Astaire dance I was transfixed...after the first time I saw the Seventh Seal I couldn...
...Wife Kate finally got him settled down for a midnight supper and sighed: "I have only one more opening night left in me." Her mate was an ecumenical pain during the pre-Broadway road tour. Explained Kate: "He would walk up the aisles and people would say, 'God bless you.' He began to feel like the Pope...
...upstate harp of Tamil Vale, Frank, sweet bird of Saratoga . . ." New Yorker Editor William Shawn, however, is pleased. "If Frank Sullivan knew about it, he would be pleased too," says Shawn. Or as Angell concludes, and Sullivan would have: "Peace on each land beneath the sun/ Good friends, God bless us, every...
...Bless Tommy Stephanian and his eponymous Lunch...