Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hinduism, are simply separate ways to the City of God. Toynbee sees the prophets of other religions as precursors of Christ, and their sufferings "Stations of the Cross in anticipation of the Crucifixion." But he does not explicitly accept Christ's divinity. Toynbee also sees Christianity as the "climax of a continuous upward movement of spiritual progress" and thinks that "a 20th century historian might venture to predict that Christianity's transfiguring effect on the World up to date would be outshone by its continuing operation in the future." But he does not accept Christianity as the only...
...make up his mind between a daughter of the Old South and a Northern hussy. On Robert Montgomery Presents, Paul McGrath played a Yankee who couldn't choose between his ever-loving wife and a Central European charmer, while CBS began the run of a new series, Climax, with an examination of the manners and morals (both terrible) of Southern California. The Climax play was based on Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, and starred Teresa Wright and Dick Powell who played the tough private eye as if he were trying the impossible task of parodying Mickey Spillane...
...uptown, Columbia is celebrating the 200th year since President Johnson first began classes in Trinity Church's vestry room. Two weeks from today on October 31, the day Kind George 11 signed the charter, the last of three great convocations will be held on Morning side Heights. It will climax one of the most extensive--and praiseworthy-- birthday celebrations ever undertaken by an American university...
...Climax! (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). With Dick Powell, Teresa Wright, Cesar Romero. Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews Cinemactress Janet Gaynor, and Eugene Ormandy, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Football (Sat. 2:30 p.m., ABC). Wisconsin v. Rice. Spectacular (Sun. 7:30 p.m., NBC). With Judy Holliday, Steve Allen, Dick Shawn. The Bob Hope Show (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC). With Rosemary Clooney. The Best of Broadway (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). The Man Who Came to Dinner with Monty Woolley, Merle Oberon, Bert Lahr, Buster Keaton, Joan Bennett, Zasu Pitts, Reginald Gardiner...
...will demand Reuther's resignation as president either of the C.I.O. or of the United Auto Workers, his basic source of strength. Reuther is not likely to give up either job peacefully. Despite last week's second-act sag, Dramatist McDonald seemed set on staging a crashing climax...