Word: heating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deserted churches, where beaten clergymen, sizing up the businessman congregations, croak about an improbable Christ who "offers us present security, four-and-a-half percent compounded every quarter." The Biblical woman accused of adultery would be safe in Tarbox; here no stones are thrown, only envious glances. With no heat left in the Protestant American crucible, the comfortable couples of Tarbox have reached out for another kind of warmth. Updike is forthright about his purpose. "There's a lot of dry talk around about love and sex being somehow the new ground of our morality," he said recently...
...docking Soviet style. More significant, say NASA scientists, would be the safe return to earth of Luna 14 from its orbit around the moon. Such an accomplishment would open the way to a manned circumlunar flight, which would place the U.S.S.R. ahead of the U.S. in at least one heat of the moon race...
...Saturday, Parker, the team's best skipper, finished first with 58 points in the fourth heat of the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association's single-handed Eliminations at the University of Rhode Island...
...sandwiched in between seemed more like a nightmare. Tepid repartee was met with jittery tittering in the audience; microphones and material failed regularly; lack of distinction was the order of the night. Hardly anyone could quarrel with Rod Steiger's Oscar for best actor in In the Heat of the Night, but Katharine Hepburn's award for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner seemed simply a sentimental tribute to a career more remarkable than her latest performance. George Kennedy's recognition as best supporting actor in Cool Hand Luke was long overdue. But naming Estelle Parsons...
Mike Nichols has had an unbroken string of hits-seven plays and two films -and it was no surprise when he was voted best director. Yet the movie he won it for-The Graduate-received not one other award. The best picture was In the Heat of the Night, whose fine if somewhat melodramatic treat ment of racial conflict seemed stirringly topical (the selection, of course, was made long before the King assassination); with five Oscars it was the most honored film of the year. One of the weakest choices involved the year's other major race picture, Guess...