Word: donald
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went the steeple, gargoyles and all, until a local paper reported the startling innovations. Then everyone awoke in alarm. "A sculptor who lets himself be inspired by the pitiful figure of Donald Duck is to be pitied himself," fumed the Rev. G. C. Foeken, one of the preachers at Eusebius Church, who had not heard about the lofty figures until the papers arrived. The Netherlands Christian Women's Association of Arnhem, 800 strong, demanded that town officials defend the "dignity of the steeple...
Last week the National Council of Churches announced that a Protestant chaplain at last has been assigned to the post. He is the Rev. Donald Roberts, 35, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Tonawanda, N.Y. Pastor Roberts will take his wife and seven-month-old daughter to Moscow, although there is no more assurance than ever that the Kremlin will resolve the "administrative" difficulties that have kept the Protestants out all these years. In other words, Roberts will have no church at all in Moscow. When the flock arrives on Sundays, it will meet in the front parlor...
...idea, replied Verlaan. He suggested something "eternal"-comic strip characters, perhaps. The delighted sculptor went off to work, within three months hacked out 23 stone figures copied from the cartoons of Hollywood's Walt Disney and from a popular Dutch cartoonist named Maarten Toonder. Among his figures were Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, the wisest of the Three Little Pigs, and a Big (six feet tall) Bad Wolf...
...Donald Soule's settings include a tropical garden on the coast of Morocco and an abandoned Moorish castle where Brassbound's band of thieves and cutthroats hide out. Costumes are by Lewis Smith. David Cole plays the Cockney thug, Drinkwater, with Peter Haskell as the Scottish missionary, Rankin, and Kenneth Tigar, Roger Gans and William FitzHugh are in the cast...
...speech was "off the record." but Senator Barry Goldwater got hold of a copy and liked it so much that fortnight ago he read it into the Congressional Record. "Thought-provoking," the Arizona Republican told his colleagues, and indeed it was; this was New York Herald Tribune Financial Editor Donald I. Rogers scolding businessmen for advertising in such "liberal" publications as the New York Times...