Word: dame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blowing Their Minds. The dialogue sermon has won wide popularity on campuses where, says Notre Dame's Father James Burtchaell, it is "very relevant to the whole university atmosphere of questioning." Father Burtchaell, who conducts experimental weeknight Masses in a dormitory chapel, has all but abandoned the tradition al sermon. Instead, he begins by commenting on a theme for five minutes, then opens up the floor for discussion...
Died. Edna Ferber, 80, grande dame of the big, romantic American novel, whose 32 books sold millions of copies; after a long illness; in Manhattan. The tiny, supercharged daughter of a Jewish businessman in Ottumwa, Iowa, she decided to "show" the town's anti-Semites by becoming famous. And so she did, never marrying, pouring everything into her writing as she mined the rich lodes of Americana she found all across the country-in Chicago (1924's So Big), the Mississippi River (1926's Show Boat), Oklahoma (1929's Cimarron), upstate New York...
...first glance, it seemed a scene from a latter-day Dutch master painting -at least that's what Dame Margot Fonteyn said it was. "I feel like the Laughing Cavalier," Margot said, and, Frans Hals notwithstanding, she looked something like him, too, as she happily showed off her Yves St. Laurent jet-black velvet pants suit to a gaggle of photographers and admirers at the opening of Artist Keith Lancey's watercolor exhibit at London's Mayfair Hotel. Her outfit all but stole the show from the paintings, which was O.K. with the artist because...
...many are not. "There's been a disproportionate amount of attention given to this," says Boston University Placement Services Director Victor R. Lindquist. Students who are not going into business are not necessarily anti. "I myself don't want to go into business," says Notre Dame Sociology Senior Peter Noonan. "But to do things like social work or teaching, you have to have a structure. Business in America is what provides that structure. It does the world's work, so other people can solve the world's problems...
...thing that bothers Nancy is that she still has not had time to complete her freshman year at Notre Dame University in Nelson, B.C. So last week, at the peak of her career, she made an announcement: "I have to set some new goals. One of them is a college degree." Next weekend, after the season's final meet at Heavenly Valley, Calif., Nancy will retire-which ought to make the French and Austrians even happier...