Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Peter Ustinov, Geraldine Page and Anthony Quayle going Barefoot in Athens, and having a rough time of it as Socrates (Ustinov) is ordered to stand trial for corrupting the thoughts of Athenian youth. Hemlock for those who miss...
...pioneer in countering the age-old Catholic position that to study the Bible was to damage it. Although knowledgeable Protestant and Jewish scholars had long admired the careful work of L'Ecole Biblique's scholars in the field of archaeology, the school came to secular fame only in 1949, when the Jordanian government entrusted it with collecting the Dead Sea Scrolls. One of its professors, French Dominican Roland de Vaux, is head of the international committee translating the scrolls into modern languages. De Vaux also headed the 36 scholars who prepared the Bible de Jérusalem...
Plop No. 3 feebly splashes a slavey with the sequins of movie stardom in some hollow mockery of the fame-and-success myth. Cinderella should...
...point. Her we have Sir Norman, fantastically wealthy, illegitimate, weak, gullible, and queer. He is victimized as a matter of course. His first tormentor, his mother aside, is a nightclub singer named Lily Vail who gets him to marry her so that she can divorce him, thereby gaining fame via scandal and fortune via alimony and blackmail. He is later a victim of a sculptress whom he commissions to create an enormous "Ritualistic Orgy of the Titans" in front of his desert home; her American Indian husband, who convinces Norman that he should raise goats for fun and profit...
...volatile is the political situation that Maddox, the Democratic candidate whom Republicans calculated would be easiest to defeat is now far ahead. The old-line segregationists who were talking up Callaway during the summer are now deserting the Republican camp for Maddox, who gained fame several years ago when he sold axe-handle "drumsticks" to beat Negroes away from his segregated Pickrick Restaurant...