Word: gills
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seminary there were classes in missions, with emphasis on the length and breadth of this globe-girdling enterprise." Thus the Rev. Theodore A. Gill. 37. managing editor of the Christian Century, describes his personal background for a four-month trip around the world last year to see at first hand what the Protestant missionary enterprise is really like. In the current Christian Century, Presbyterian Gill concludes an eight-part report on the countries of Southeast Asia-the area chosen by the National Council of Churches' Board of Foreign Missions for special study during 1957. Gist of his report...
...MONEY STOPPED (193 pp.) -Brendan Gill-Doubleday...
...virtue of his stuffy brother Richard. Within a few hours he parlays both into a $20,000 offer with more to come as he needs it. Having made his point, Charlie unconvincingly spurns the money. On this framework, Author (The Trouble of One House) and New Yorker Critic Brendan Gill hangs a morality tale. It boils down to the adage that appearances are deceiving. Charlie, with all his faults, has the courage to look coolly and calmly at Life. Richard, despite all his probity, is frightened of Truth. When Charlie suggests that their revered father drove his wife to suicide...
...crisp, dialogue-filled pages. Author Gill has drawn a recognizable portrait of a fast-talking, flip and money-hungry operator, but when he reaches for a deeper meaning in Charlie's woes, he reaches into emptiness. As a novel or play, the book must stand in the shadow of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, since both take the rigid form of a one-day revelation of a family's sins and strength. But here is no passionate view of the tragedy of life: easy optimism and shallow hope bubble...
...Gill-sized Author Capote-5 ft. 4 in., 122 Ibs. -is an accomplished judo artist, is proud of his ability to outwrestle Screen Tough Guy Humphrey Bogart...