Word: formative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...format of Freberg's spiritual ads is "a disarming natural conversational approach leading into a song that's like a pop tune. It's what I call the 'espionage approach.' " In one commercial, a secular type says he can't make it to church because "this Sunday I'm playing golf," and as far as next Sunday goes, "I promised to take the kids to the beach." A voice asks: "Well, how about two weeks from Sunday?" "Oh, I never plan that far ahead. Two weeks! The whole world could blow...
...press in an old garage in Hempstead in 1940, Alicia was disappointed: "I'm afraid it looks like hell." It was soon looking better as Alicia poured her energies into the paper, bringing it to life with a healthy mixture of news, irreverence and breeziness. Newsday's format was novel for a tabloid, with large type, three-column width on its pages, and a center Feature section stuffed in upside down for handy removal. Her interest covered every field-from politics to sin in the choir loft. When a frustrated editor asked her what she wanted...
...most striking evidence of the School's renewed concern for the role of the church in the modern world was this year's Colloquium, which brought together more than 150 Catholic and Protestant churchmen. Dean Miller called the Colloquium a "superb success," and saw in its format of public lectures and panel discussions "a method of introducing into our School a dialogue with many different fields." Among the colloquia which he suggested the Divinity School might sponsor were a symposium on contemporary business ethics, a discussion of the relationship between ministers and psychiatrists, and an examination of the theological significance...
President Kennedy hustled Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Averell Harriman, who had hammered out the basic format for the Geneva Agreement last summer, to Moscow to urge on Khrushchev the need for Russian intercession in Laos. "We regard the maintenance of the Geneva accords as essential to the security of Laos itself," said Kennedy, "and as a test of whether it is possible for an accord to be reached between countries which have serious differences." In Moscow, Harriman was received coolly; only a junior protocol officer was at the airport to meet him. When...
...first format Antiphonie contains pairs of lines which can be interchanged, while the Trope is built of obbligato groups which can be variously permuted with each other, and of other groups which can be played or not as the performer pleases...