Word: christly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...March of this year, Hurt launched a drive to get other congregations of the Churches of Christ to boycott the advertised products unless the companies agreed to stop sponsoring its hit-listed shows. By mid-June, 6,000 churches had agreed to take part. Says Hurt's literature: "They [the sponsors] are the 'Achilles' heel' of the entire television industry ... The purpose of the campaign is not to take programs off the air, but to insist that they be cleaned up so that they are no longer an insult to decency and [a] negative influence...
...situation, it recognizes that standards of taste are subjective." Indeed, before the crusade began, the company had decided to put no more money into The Newlywed Game and The Dating Game because, says an executive, "the company no longer found them to be in good taste." The Churches of Christ agree: those two shows are on an expanded hit list...
...Dristan, Anacin, Chef Boyardee, Wizard air freshener and Woolite, and General Foods' Gravy Train dog food, Kool-Aid, Maxwell House coffee, Birds Eye frozen foods and JellO. (Asks an outraged General Foods executive: "How can anyone consider Jell-O un-American?") In Dayton, the Belmont Church of Christ sent in 200 cards and passed out more than 800 to people in the com munity. "This is a grass-roots type of thing, and it is spreading like a fire," claims Morris Thurman, minister of the College Church of Christ in Oklahoma City. "We do not want to hurt these...
Daughter of a nonreligious sportswriter, Dorothy was confirmed in the Episcopal Church. She became a socialist agnostic in 1915 at the University of Illinois. "For me Christ no longer walked the streets of this world. He was 2,000 years dead and new prophets had risen up in His place," she recalled in her finely crafted autobiography, The Long Loneliness (1952). At 18 she moved to New York City, befriended young writers like Eugene O'Neill and Hart Crane, took a Marxist lover, joined the young labor movement and wrote for far-left newspapers like the Masses...
...format of this Chapelle aux Dames is a huge table in the form of an equilateral triangle. On each side there are 13 place settings (a reference to the Last Supper, with Christ and his twelve Disciples). The 39 settings commemorate mythic or real women, goddesses and culture heroines, from the Bona Dea of prehistory to Georgia O'Keeffe. Each consists of a porcelain goblet, porcelain cutlery and a large plate, all reposing on ornamental cloth runners. Most of the plates bear designs based on the female genital organs, though one of them, representing English Composer Ethel Smyth...