Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard to fight such misguided enthusiasm and perhaps one should not blame the actors in the current Charles Playhouse production if from time to time they seem to give up the battle. Still, Stephen Elliott, who plays the central role of Macheath, might show a little more fighting spirit. His performance gives scant indication that Mackie is basically "a lean man, a mean man." Instead, Elliott's Mackie is a genial musical comedy star who likes nothing so much as playing to the audience. When other members of the cast follow his example, the play loses its undercurrent of irony...
...cartoon characters named Bert and Harry Piel stopped delivering their sudsy-soft sell for Piel's Beer in the New York area. From 1955 to 1960, pompous, pint-sized Bert and his self-conscious older brother Harry (with voices supplied by radio's Ray Goulding and Bob Elliott) fumbled engagingly through ads witty enough to keep chortling viewers out of the bathroom during program breaks. Last week Bert and Harry fans were chortling again. After a painful hiatus, during which Piel's advertising consisted largely of jarring jingles, the struggling Brooklyn brewery-which was bought early this...
Sinking also is the business of three ocean liners docked in Elliott Bay as floating hotels. And a few get-rich-quick sharp-sters got burned by hoping to profit from a hotel-room shortage that didn't happen...
Most notable case in point was Dr.Ralph Elliott, a professor at the Midwestern Baptist Seminary in Kansas City...
Last summer the Baptist-run Broadman Press published Elliott's The Message of Genesis, an exegetical study of some of the more cautious judgments of other Protestant Biblical scholarship; for example, that the Flood covered only a few miles of the Middle East rather than the entire world, and that Adam might well be a symbolic term for all mankind rather than a specific human being. "This sort of rationalistic criticism." rumbled Houston Pastor K. Owen White, "can lead only to further confusion, unbelief, deterioration and ultimate disintegration of a great New Testament denomination." But not every Baptist preacher...