Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Raintree County, with Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and a whole flock of northern Gone-With-the-Winders plays at lukewarm epic-making at the Astor, to epic length. MGM spent millions...
...caricature. In fact, if her intention were to destroy faith in capitalism, she could not have written a book better suited to the purpose. At the end, the lesser men have been beaten to their knees and John Gait, the Moses of the moneybags, is about to lead his flock out of the mountains. " 'The road is cleared,' said Gait. 'We are going back to the world.' He raised his hand and over the desolate earth he traced in space the sign of the dollar...
...than have been found in the inquiries of the Teamsters Union." He blasted a book called Morals and Medicine used as a text in some religion courses, saying that it misrepresented Roman Catholic teaching. Later he accused Author Joseph Fletcher, an Episcopalian minister, of once being connected with a flock of "Communist-front organizations." He noted that the book was published by the university press, and asked darkly: "Why was Princeton willing to lend its name to this thing...
...pastor of the nondenominational American Church in Paris, Dr. Clayton Edgar Williams, tends a parish that is 49 miles wide, includes only a few thousand resident Americans. But each year some 400,000 U.S. tourists, soldiers and businessmen flock to Paris, and a sizable minority of them find their way to the American Church. Their needs are often unusual: a tired, broke G.I. awakens Pastor Williams at 3 a.m., asks for and gets a bunk for the night; an Air Force captain learns that his nephew has been killed in a street accident, and Dr. Williams opens the church...
Wandering Souls. The church stayed open through the Franco-Prussian war, the Paris Commune, World War I and the Depression; during World War II it was run by a French Protestant pastor for Dr. Williams, who left in 1940 with a flock of refugees...