Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...owes all of its astonishing market success to a complicated, desk-sized machine prosaically called the 914 Office Copier. There is nothing prosaic about what the 914 does: without muss, fuss, delay or extensive training of an operator, it makes copies on ordinary paper of almost anything that will fit on its Qin. by 14-in. plate - including a child's doll. Last week, thanks to the 914. Xerox stock closed at $176 a share, roughly 49 times the company's $3.60 share earnings...
...Midnight. In the screaming jangle of a Paris nightclub. Lisa (Sophia Loren) is dancing le twist with head-back abandon. Enter Robert, the husband, whose winsome, small-boy smile reveals instantly that he is Tony Perkins. Moments later. Robert has bared his vicious little ego and in a fit of petulance is smacking the daylights out of Wife Lisa to launch this chilling story of mismatched mates. When Lisa gets the news that Robert's airliner, bound for Casablanca, has crashed near Bordeaux killing all on board, her grief is tempered with relief. Two nights later, she is awakened...
...Miss Humphrey evidently felt that the Shakers were frightfully boring people, who, as the program tells us, "believed they could shake themselves free of sin and did not believe in marriage." Her piece begins with a prayer meeting that is totally mechanical and unsubtle. Although some prayer meetings may fit this description they do not make good material for dance programs. What naturally results is incredibly obvious choreography laid out in straight lines and circles. The dance has outgrown these forms, and should know better by now which works of 1931 are classics and which primitives...
Even if the New York Times isn't really any livelier than it was before its extended opportunity for rest and rehabilitation, it is still a welcome addition to the local papers. Once again we have the Times to purvey all the news that's fit to print and the Record-American to provide the rest...
...Functional Parish." Slum priests freely adapt the worship of the church to fit the needs of their parishes. Boston's Father Sotolongo offers his Latin-American congregation plenty of liturgical splendor, with vestments, incense and sung Masses. Father Cromey in San Francisco holds evangelical preaching-and-singing services in housing projects and on street corners. Pragmatists rather than radicals, these priests are searching for new concepts of what the church should be. The Rev. James Jones, 36, of Chicago, for example, believes that Protestantism must create a new kind of "functional parish" uniting city groups sharing common interests. Father...