Word: dropouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contemporary man, says the Rev. Richard McFarland of Washington's Dumbarton Methodist Church. Accordingly, he is as likely to use a passage from Camus or Albee as a parable to bring home to his congregation an aspect of God's message. Well aware that pulpit time is dropout time for many churchgoers, more and more ministers are not only turning to secular sources as an inspiration for sermons but are trying more dramatic ways to vary the format of their preaching...
...licensing of labs. Half a dozen other states require that the director of a lab must have some professional qualifications, but he need not be on the spot; this is an invitation for unscrupulous physicians to take well-paid figurehead positions. In more than 40 states, any high school dropout can set up a lab with no questions asked, although, as the committee chairman, Michigan's Democratic Senator Philip A. Hart noted, "they require a license for a fellow who cuts your hair...
What happens is that a high school dropout roars through town on a motorcycle stolen from a friend, and stops long enough to rape a harmless local halfwit. No one cares very much, but gentle ripples of consequence eventually reach the local newspaper editor, a shopkeeper, a waitress, an "alienated" college professor and his wife Charlotte, who is one of those beautiful, charming, spontaneous nature girls so dear to the hearts of intellectual novelists. The sparse action is accompanied by heavy circular symbolism: the motorcycle wheels, the twister, Charlotte's abandoned whirling dance, bees circling around the half...
Scofield, who was raised eight miles from his present Sussex home, was a school dropout at 17, though his father was a headmaster. "Whatever pressures there were against my going into the theater," he recalls, "they were pretty well canceled out by the fact that I wasn't going to be very much good at anything else." Thus he went off to the London Mask Theater School. When the war came along, Scofield signed up with ENSA (Entertainments National Service Association), Britain's equivalent of the U.S.O., and for the next two years played Shakespeare, Shaw...
...School Dropout. It is that conviction, as well as his presence and artful stagecraft, that has made Scofield's performances near legendary. Helen Hayes, who saw him in the Broadway production of A Man for All Seasons, led the applause by rising and bellowing "Bravo! Bravo!" Playing Hamlet in Moscow in 1955, Scofield drew 16 curtain calls, the last three with the whole audience chanting his name in unison. When he played the whisky priest in Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory, the London Sunday Express called his performance "one of the finest pieces of character...