Word: geralds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their lesson in civil defense, each scratches his soul for a wartime philosophy. "It's the seventh game in the World Series," the cattleman sighs, "and this time, we're the home team." Amid the atomic destruction, there is also a seamy romance between a cynical but brave newspaperman, Gerald Mohr, and a sullen barfly, Peggic Castle...
...considerable scholarly interest in studying and discussing the theology of their church. The latest symptom of this interest is a magazine called Theology Digest, to be published three times a year, which appeared for the first time last week (first print order: 2,500 copies). Edited by Jesuit Father Gerald Van Ackeren, 36, who got his doctorate in theology at Rome's Gregorian University, the Digest hopes to introduce more readers to the stimulating but sometimes forbiddingly highbrow discussions of religion and philosophy which are buried in the pages of the world's theological journals...
Eyes Shut. Gerald Joseph Mulligan looks more extreme than he sounds. His hair is cut for a Jerry Lewis effect, crew-cropped on top, bangs in front. He has a sleepy face, and on the bandstand he keeps his watery-green eyes closed even when listening to Trumpeter Chet Baker, opens them only occasionally to glower at customers who are boorish enough to talk against the music...
...program got under way with a staid, ten-minute monologue by the staid BBC's Edward Halliday. Then Sir Gerald broke into Halliday's lukewarm praise of a Rembrandt self-portrait. "My dear fellow," he boomed, "that's a bloody work of genius." Pointing out a drop of water on a tulip, Sir Gerald cried: "Look at that confounded drop of water. Looks as if it might fall off any moment. That's sheer damned skill." Of Rembrandt's A Man in Armour: "I just go all goo-goo when I stand in front...
Shocked by all this uncensored enthusiasm, especially Sir Gerald's uninhibited use of "bloody" and "damn," BBC sat back to wait for protests. It is still waiting. Most of the letters from listeners urged: "Let's have more of Gerald Kelly." Attendance at the exhibit increased sharply. But the London Daily Express primly editorialized that Sir Gerald "brings honor neither to his position nor to himself by descending to the use of vulgar expletives." Commented unrepentant Sir Gerald: "Did I say that the Man in Armour was a bloody marvel? Well, it is a bloody marvel...