Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sound of Music spawns endless expensive musicals...
Written during a hectic three-and-a-half weeks in the summer of 1741, Handel's oratorio has always been a smash. If a nearly endless succession of well-meaning popularizers have taken gross and extravagant liberties with it, Handel is partly to blame. A shrewd businessman, he ensured The Messiah's success by hiring the best and most popular singers in 18th century London to sing it. If the bass singer was not very good, Handel would turn the bass aria into a recitative, rewrite it for an alto or even a soprano. For flexible soprano voices...
...accurately than any other man in the game. This season he completed 249 passes, a league-leading total supported by Lombardi's fundamentalist ground game. "That's one area we improved upon this year," says Vince, "just by making them run." One result of Lombardi's endless drills: Rookie Larry Brown averaged 4.4 yds. per carry to rank fifth among N.F.L. rushers...
...evidence on the possible damage of concentrated MSG in a baby's bloodstream. In fact, many potentially harmful chemicals occur naturally in familiar foods. Spinach is rich in oxalic acid, which is the foundation for a common type of kidney stone. (Popeye in real life would have suffered endless agonies from passing stones.) Carotene, the pigment that puts the color in egg yolks, sweet potatoes, mangoes and carrots, is used by the body to make Vitamin A-but consumed in excess causes a kind of jaundice...
...constituency. Dutch Catholic Priest Leo G. M. Alting von Geusau, secretary-general of Rome's International Documentation Center, which does research for the council, warned the delegates that institutional ecumenism is becoming the province of "a smaller and smaller group of ecumenists, meeting and meeting again in endless commissions, running behind the facts." In the meantime, as von Geusau and other critics noted, the young and the disaffected are moving away from churchly institutions, seeking to rediscover the radical meaning of the Gospel in communities and movements that have nothing to do with such established organizations as the National...