Word: let
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though it was not up to his usual standard. His four-color, monthly Miracle Magazine (circ. 350,000) reports even more spectacular cures. In the current issue, a teenager named Yodonna Holley from Globe, Ariz., testifies that "I received fillings in my teeth" during a camp meeting. ("Why not let God be YOUR dentist?" suggests the story.) A young man named Charles Embrey, of Hayward, Calif., testifies that he prayed with Brother Allen and got new spinal disks. Only in the small print can a reader find the careful demurrer: "A. A. Allen Revivals, Inc. assumes no legal responsibility...
...week as bang-on by the London TV critics. Wrote the Daily Mail: "It's very possible that David Dimbleby judged the mood of the nation toward the Nixon visit as accurately as his father judged its mood toward the visits of Eisenhower and Kennedy. Don't let them throw you, David. It's better to be ahead of your time than behind...
...culture conflict an exquisite nonfiction novel of sensibility. As a documentary study of human beings in adversity, it deserves a place next to Oscar Lewis' The Children of Sanchez. As an artistic creation, Torregreca'?, eloquence often matches an even greater book, James Agee's enduring Let Us Now Praise Famous...
...central character, who supposedly takes up where Mother Courage left off, is miscast. Emme Davidson is simply too healthy for the role. Wrapped in black, reclining on a couch, and sentenced to deliver her lines in a self-righteous singsong, she's like Truman Capote in drag. Well, let's just say Truman Capote period, and leave it at that...
...cliquishness that persists year after year. The other day one Cliffe was overheard warning another who had just been cast in a mainstage production, "Just don't become a Loebie." And as a freshman I was warned against the evils of the "in-group," which supposedly would not let a newcomer rise above the level of 3rd assistant prop...