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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Audrey Hepburn's Oscar-winning movie Roman Holiday will be revisited by Playwright Robert Anderson, who wrote Tea and Sympathy, Composer-Lyricist Richard Adler (Damn Yankees) and Director Joe Layton (No Strings). A Katharine Hepburn movie, Summertime, which was adapted from a Shirley Booth play, The Time of the Cuckoo, is being re-adapted for the theater by Richard Rodgers and his new collaborator, Stephen Sondheim, the lyricist for Gypsy and West Side Story. Another Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance play will be the musical of Clifford Odets' durable Golden Boy, which opened in 1937, became a movie...
...economic policies, Burns and Saulnier felt that they had been used for electioneering purposes. Snapped Burns later: "Mr. Heller spoke of a consensus where none existed. The reporting of this meeting violated every professional code-and when that happens to me, I'm independent enough to get damn...
...reason that Cushing has proved so open to church renewal is his freedom from what one reform-minded layman calls "Chancery Catholicism." "Cushing doesn't give a damn for canon law or moral theology," says a Jesuit from the College of the Holy Cross. "He has no tolerance for any kind of legalism in the church." Although many of his priests are perfectly content with a "service-station liturgy" in Latin, Cushing has required every parish to install the dialogue Mass, and openly champions the new English translation of much of the Mass, which will be introduced across...
...give a damn about posterity," declared Composer Kurt Weill. "I write for today." Nonetheless, since Weill's death in 1950, his catchy, sophisticated music (September Song, Mack the Knife, Alabama Song) has inspired a fiercely devoted following in the U.S. and abroad and prompted a spate of memorial record albums and revivals, most memorably the phenomenal off-Broadway production (2,707 performances) of his Threepenny Opera...
...rector of Woolwich, strongly deplored the concern with trivialities. "Our work is hopelessly undermined when our fellow churchmen, claiming to speak in the name of Christ, make issues about clerical vesture. It confirms people's suspicion that when the crunch comes, the church doesn't care a damn about the things that matter. I would celebrate the Holy Communion service in my pajamas if I thought it would help someone to find faith...