Word: fours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lavish with four-letter words. This is the largesse of an impoverished mind. It is a hair transplant on a would-be manly chest...
...decision made a point of recommending that the Bible should still be studied for its "literary and historic qualities," but that option is rarely exercised. Some diehard school districts in a few states still defy the court and teach an old-fashioned Protestant version of the Bible, but only four states, a handful of cities and some individual schools have attempted new approaches to the Bible...
...idea for the book originated with Jesuit Priest Walter M. Abbott ten years ago-four years before the Supreme Court decision-while he was an editor of America. Work began in 1961 after Father Abbott had been joined by Dr. Rolfe Lanier Hunt, a Methodist educator, the Rev. J. Carter Swaim, a Biblical scholar and Presbyterian pastor, and Rabbi Arthur Gilbert, now dean of the Jewish Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia...
What distinguishes The Forsyte Saga from Peyton Place and the Secret Storm is its distinguished origins and its careful preparation. The BBC bought rights to the saga from MGM, then Producer Donald Wilson and four writers spent more than a year turning out an adaptation that is remarkably faithful to Galsworthy. Presented on Sunday evenings at 7:25, the series became such a craze in Britain last year that many clergymen rescheduled evensong services in order to avoid losing their congregations. An estimated 17 million viewers tuned in each week. Hostesses had to schedule dinner parties around the series. Sunday...
...other new variety offering is, by comparison, antediluvian. The title, Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters Hour, says it all. The 76-year-old vaudevillian co-stars with four sisters who, though the oldest is not quite 30, are all 14-year veterans of The Lawrence Welk Show. The standard finale of their series will be an upbeat musical tribute to a city. Opening night it was Chicago (that toddlin' town), which the girls cheerily hymned as "the convention center of the nation...