Word: idol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against nature. The idea of God as a transcendental presence implies to Dewart that God is to be envisioned as a reality found in and through nature, as the shaping force of history. And in so far as the word "God" has become a symbol of an outdated supernatural idol, Dewart proposes that the church might well resign itself to silence as to the name of the reality-beyond-being it serves and preaches...
...KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE. The idol of soap-opera devotees works up a lather when she discovers that she is being written out of radio existence. So far, so standard, but there's a twist to this one as Beryl Reid plays a lesbian with the manners of a bulldozer and a pickax...
...STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Rick Nelson and Joanie Sommers play it "On the Flip Side," an offbeat musical about an aging teen-age idol whose singing career gets an unexpected boost from a truly heaven-sent vocal group called The Celestials...
...KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE. The idol of soap-opera devotees works up a lather when she discovers that she is being written out of radio existence. So far, so standard, but there's a twist to this one as Beryl Reid plays a lesbian with the manners of a bulldozer and a pickax...
...become, as one French magazine termed it, "a tornado, a cyclone, a cataclysm." Dressed in the death-wish black that was Piaf's trademark, she caused a sensation at Paris' Olympia music hall singing the plaintive ballads that made "the Sparrow of the Streets" a national idol until her death in 1963. Soon Mireille's recordings were topping the bestseller lists; this summer she sang 64 consecutive sellout concerts in the provinces, outdrawing all other French and foreign singers. Last month her pixyish face, framed in a heart-shaped helmet of chestnut hair, appeared on the covers...