Word: blessing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lives in secrecy, whereabouts unknown, seen only by a handful of his apostles. The mysteries of Mo have escalated with the distribution of a document purporting to be the latest Mo Letter and titled "God Bless You-And: Good-Bye!" In the letter, Mo confesses that he has been a "false prophet" who passed off his own thoughts as divinely inspired and "led you by your faith in Jesus into the darkness of my mind." The movement, he announces, "has come to an end now and forever." Far from disbanding, however, the Children are arguing that the letter...
...anyway-is many laughs. Director Donner. convinced that it was campiness that brought down King Kong, is avoiding even the possibility of untoward giggles. Says he: "I was brought up on Superman, and I believe this myth. There is a little bit of God Bless America in it. There is a purity and a fantasy in it that is right for our times." Adds Mankiewicz: "Whatever Jimmy Carter is asking us to be, Superman is already. What we are really giving people is the Christian message: that we should all be honest, love each other and be for the underdog...
Hurrah for the family practitioners-God bless 'em and may they prosper...
...said, sidling up to the bar with the obvious desire of buttonholing me for a drink. Having read "The Last Hurrah" I was well aware that any defensive maneuver short of armed resistance was useless, so I gave in and ordered a round. My companion smiled and said "God bless you"--Irish drunks are the only people in the world who say "God bless you" when you haven't sneezed--and then began the Inquisition...
Sundays, her family gathers in the living room. There are shelves of family pictures, and a wall plaque reads: GOD BLESS OUR FAMILY. Five children and three grandchildren say grace. The head chair is for their father; he is in prison...