Word: graham
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...sounded like a trip from Sodom to Gomorrah. Before he sailed from the U.S., Evangelist Billy Graham, 47, had ticked off quite a list of sinners inhabiting his native land: "The beatnik, the rebellious youth, the price-rigging executive, the draft-card burner, the pregnant high school girl, the dope addict, the bribed athlete" and a host of others. Behold, things didn't look any purer to Billy when he arrived in London to begin a month-long crusade. "To read the papers and magazines, you would think that we were almost worshiping the female bosom," he said...
Self-Serving Motives. Friedlander has already been subject to counterattack. In a recent issue of America, Jesuit Historian Robert Graham says that he ignored documents that do not support his case. Other Catholic experts charge that Friedlander has failed to consider the self-serving motives of the German diplomats whose reports are so crucial to his thesis. Von Bergen, for example, was an ambitious professional diplomat who hoped for promotion in Germany's foreign service. Von Weizsacker was an anti-Nazi Protestant who apparently wished to prevent Hitler from taking any action that would harm Pius personally...
Nikolais, a mild-mannered ex-pianist, studied dance with Martha Graham and Hanya Holm before forming his own company in 1956. Now 54, he no longer dances, but concentrates on developing a theater of the "total happening," in which "man is taken out of this world and put into the universe." From that vista, the view is sometimes self-conscious and distorted, but the message comes through. Says Nikolais: "We've got to make our peace today with a lot more things than our fellow...
Crazy February. Wilson's first novel, is about an Indian tribe living in Southern Mexico. The book was published earlier this year and received enthusiastic reviews. One critic compared Wilson to Graham Greene...
...Contrary to popular opinion, Prudence and the Pill was not written by Graham Blaine. It is a "bedroom farce" about what happens when a suspicious husband replaces his wife's Enovid with aspirin. Pregnancy is the obvious result, but when? And who? Written by Hugh Mills, published by Lippincott, and not worth the effort...