Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Florida, "to hell with it" is "open profanity," punishable by statute. Tennessee forbids teaching evolution as contrary to the Bible. Congress pays chaplains to intone superstitions at every session. Chaplains are paid handsomely by the military services, a situation of which Thomas Jefferson took a dim view. Practitioners of organized religion get special rates on transport, entertainment and in many other areas, which amounts to a subsidy from taxpayers. And now we have Dirksen, the Charles Laughton of the Senate, crusading to amend the Constitution in favor of school prayer...
Editorials, continued an unflagging King, are even worse. "Could a real living journalist have assembled in his human mind such a collection of dim platitudes which lead so inexorably to a non-conclusion?" As for columnists, "I wonder if they would be so lavishly used if they were not dirt cheap; if it was not possible for an editor or a publisher to obtain for a song so much copy of such high respectability?" Many columnists "conceal an idea the size of a pea in a stack of dry straw. Does nobody discipline them? Does nobody make them rewrite...
According to Saudek there is no reason to expect improvement in commercial television. He said the three major networks now provide only a game of "electronic hopscotch," with channel-hoppers discovering as little variety as they would among three rock-and-roll stations. But prospects for change seem dim, since the networks are making money, he said...
...surprisingly, Roman Catholic leaders take a dim view of New Left thinking. Last month the Master General of the Dominican order, Father Ancieto Fernandez, dismissed the leading theologian of the New Left, the Rev. Herbert McCabe, 40, as editor of the zesty Catholic monthly New Blackfriars. What triggered the firing was an editorial by McCabe in the magazine's February issue commenting on the defection of Theologian Charles Davis (TIME, Dec. 30). His charges that the church was "racked by fear" and dominated by authority rather than truth, said McCabe, "seem to be very well founded; the church...
...dreadful place of waterless rivers where turtles encrust a rock like scabs, and the "so-oopwha wind" reddens the sky with sandstorms. The only hope for anyone in such a place is to get away from it. Feebly, Ferris' daughter tries to escape, but, though beautiful, she is dim-witted and can't pass the exams that might get her a city job. The place is too much for her; the jackals and the thorn trees have won, she wails. Novelist Mclntosh provides a merciful if not happy ending for the girl, but it is one that...