Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Certainly-but the floors are usually very cold and hard...
Located on 1,250 acres of desert land in Arizona's Cochise County, Miracle Valley today is a teetotaling, nonsmoking oasis of evangelistic fervor and hard-nosed business. At the Miracle Valley Bible College, 100 students from as far away as the Philippines (his "special" mission territory) study the Allen brand of evangelism. In its busy headquarters building, squads of secretaries, mail clerks and printers attend the banks of file cards, automatic typewriters and offset presses that allow Allen to print and mail out more than 55 million pieces of literature every year. TV and radio technicians stand...
...Revivals." Advance men have prepared the way for them, enlisting local ministers, mostly from Pentecostal churches, to share the stage with Allen, rejoice in the cures, and give a little pitch for their own services. Allen's specialty, along with the cures, is the $100 pledge, and the hard sell is usually made by one of his assistants. "The Scriptures say you got to vow and pay, vow and pay, vow and pay," Brother Don Stewart exhorted the Crouch Temple crowd last week. "You got to promise God, and you got to keep the promise. If you want...
...newsboys will be delighted with Keith Waterhouse's new comic novel. It is possible, of course, to write gaily about any abomination-Brendan Behan turned out two successful stage comedies about men who were to be executed in the morning, neither with a happy ending-but it is hard to recall anything quite like Waterhouse's merry laughter at his main character's torment...
...author's peculiar animus against his character pushes the mockery one sentence too far: "He now had secret hopes that she would become an alcoholic so that he could boast about her capacity. . . ." Unfunny, because unbelievable. The reader begins to be uneasy; why is Waterhouse pressing so hard...