Word: godly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Burns has received critical acclaim for his understated performance as the cigar-smoking deity in the spoof "Oh God...
George Burns, 84-year-old dean of vaudeville comedy and lead in the recent film "Oh God," yesterday turned down an invitation to appear as visiting lecturer in this spring's Learning from Performers series...
...just received my diploma from P.S. 22 in Manhattan after 70 years, and now you're inviting me to speak at Harvard," the ageless Burns noted. "Come to think of it, that's the only thing that could top playing 'God' in the movies," he added...
Long a talk-show regular, Burn's career underwent a resurgence after an Oscar nomination for his role in the 1974 film, "The Sunshine Boys," and "Oh God" has become one of the most successful films of the past year...
...proliferated considerably since the Tower of Babel helped explain how the sons of Noah came to converse in so many different languages. Today there are 3,000 languages in the world, most of them oral only, which makes life difficult for Christian missionaries sworn to spread the word of God as widely as possible. Most Bible societies, in fact, concentrate mainly on getting adequate translations into the major written languages. But the Summer Institute of Linguistics has a longer reach. For the past 42 years, following the teachings of its founder W. Cameron Townsend, S.I.L. teams have been seeking...