Word: excellency
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unsophisticated, unfashionable early Christians. Says Jesuit Scholar Daniel J. O'Hanlon: "We can learn from the Pentecostals that the central Christian message must be proclaimed in all its clarity and simplicity." Admits William Elliott, chairman of the Presbyterian Board of World Missions: "We do not feel that they excel us in a theological point of view. But they often shame us in their zeal to proclaim our Lord as they understand...
Every afternoon the juniors spend two hours with the lower-middlers, upper-middlers and seniors on the vast playing fields-a sea of runners, jumpers, kickers. All get a chance to excel at one of 17 sports, if not on a varsity team, then on one of four intramural teams in each sport-the red-shirted Romans, the green Gauls, the grey Greeks, the orange Saxons. Belonging grows as the morning teacher turns afternoon coach, yelling, "Tail down, Jones!" It mounts in a delirious rally before the Exeter game, and if victory comes, in a yowling torchlight parade and huge...
...turn. Whatever he wants, I'm. going to see he gets it." What Ted wanted was the Senate. He wanted it as a measure of proof that he could hold his own as a Kennedy. For Ted was the kid brother, and he had to excel to survive in a family where life is a constant contest and victory the only goal...
...startling sign, it is only because he believes that he needs a new image. By insisting that he was never an extremist on either side ("I am not a captive of any extremists of any viewpoint"), he is countering the welter of criticism with considerable success. He stands an excel lent chance of winning a majority in next week's primary or, if not then, in a runoff election that would probably follow. Old Tiger Faubus may have lost his teeth, but in Arkansas there seems to be no lion in the streets strong enough to threaten him seriously...
...only previous Shakespearean experience was as Portia and Viola. I admire her when she sticks to the limited bailiwick in which she can excel. But as a Shakespearean she is a nullity. She is often termed the doyenne of American actresses; but her current gambol earns her no better title than Helen...