Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talent, he explains, is his ability to spot talent. More precisely, as the single most influential starmaker in TV, he shrewdly uses his power to gather, pay for, juggle, condense, cut or otherwise shape the talent to the needs of his show. He takes no guff from stars, advertisers or agents. When Beatles Manager Brian Epstein told him, "I would like to know the exact wording of your introduction," Sullivan coolly replied, "I would like you to get lost." The one influence that guides his taste is "public opinion, which is the voice...
...drive up Canton's main street-People's Way-you are hit by what has become China's graffiti. Every inch of just about every building is covered with posters, as if naughty children had been let loose with paint and brushes. Swarms of people gather around government-printed posters that show the downcast faces of men who have been executed for antirevolutionary activity. Other posters attack Chiang Kaishek, Lyndon Johnson and Mao's archrival, President Liu Shao-chi; some attack Mao himself. Posters are put up and ripped down by rival factions, and the city...
Simple and sincere, the informal Eucharist was identical to countless others celebrated by the Christian Layman's Experimental Organization, a group of thoughtful Roman Catholics in New Jer sey, who gather regularly to study, pray and worship. How long they will remain Catholics in good standing is now problematical: this month Bishop George W. Ahr of Trenton stripped the organization's priest-adviser, Father George Hafner, of his right to say Mass and hear confessions, and threatened him with excommunication for conducting illegal worship services. Hafner has vowed to carry on as spiritual guide to CLEO. Says Hafner...
Sons of God, hear his Holy Word! Gather 'round the table of the Lord! Eat his Body, drink his Blood, And we'll sing a song of loves...
...others; but largely the HUC problem is its unrepresentative nature. It consists of 22 students, all of whom are elected by House Committees and the Freshman Council rather than directly by the undergraduate body. In other words, someone who has the energy for such things can gather a few dormitory votes, get himself elected to his House Committee, have the House Committee elect him to the HUC, and finally defeat one or two possible rivals for the HUC chairmanship. With this support, he can become "the Harvard student leader" for a year or two, or until his national political fantasies...