Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...List of Adrian Messenger. Director John Huston seems as confused about the plot of this gimmicked potboiler as audiences will be. But the stars-George C. Scott, Dana Wynter, Kirk Douglas-are fun to watch. So are Bit-Players Tony Curtis, Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster and Robert Mitchum, in extravagant disguises...
Sunday Night Movie (ABC, 8-10 p.m.). Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and Sir Laurence Olivier star in G. B. Shaw's Devil's Disciple...
...room at London Airport. But instead of washing his face, he takes it off. He squeegees out his contact eyeball covers, eases out his teeth, removes his grey wig, strips off his forehead and nose like so much tired bubble gum. And quicker than the audience can gasp "Kirk Douglas!", Kirk Douglas starts redisguising himself as a dapper diplomat. From here on, The List of Adrian Messenger becomes less a suspense movie than a guessing game: Who, among the assorted gypsies, crippled pensioners, organ grinders and ban-thefox-hunt ladies, are really Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Frank Sinatra and Robert...
Such rules have long struck many Protestants as the height of ecclesiastical arrogance, and last week the Committee on Church and Nation of the Church of Scotland (1,307,000 members) came right out and said so. In a report to the General Assembly of the Kirk, the committee declared that the Catholic attitude toward mixed marriages "cannot escape unqualified moral condemnation." It urged the Kirk to warn young people about the dangers of marrying Catholics, argued that "no member of the Church has any moral right to make such a promise binding children yet unborn to be brought...
...Kirk report could hardly be praised for its ecumenical tone, and a decade ago might have inspired Catholic polemicists to a chorus of criticism. But not in the era of open-minded Pope John XXIII. Among the proposals scheduled for discussion when the Vatican Council reconvenes next fall is an important schema on the sacraments, prepared with the help of Rome's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. If the schema is approved, Protestants would no longer be forced to promise in writing that they would raise offspring of a mixed marriage as Catholics. Moreover, some bishops are expected...