Word: luce
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...while also catering to their appetite for popular culture, Teen Mania started the Acquire the Fire rallies in 1991. The fast-paced live events, with light shows, music and dancers, offer a 21st century iteration of the Gospel and draw 5,000 to 10,000 kids each weekend. Ron Luce, head of the organization, aims to have something different happening onstage every five or six minutes, and each song or performance, skit, speech or video clip carries a Gospel message. Significantly, five or six minutes is about the length of two rock videos...
...column for TIME, eschewed advocacy writing and promoted the creation of a dispassionate national press council. The final editor of the weekly LIFE magazine, which closed in 1972, Griffith also wrote three books, including the 1995 Harry and Teddy, which tracked the intersecting lives of TIME's founder Henry Luce and ace reporter Theodore H. White...
...married ("Lohengrinned") or separated ("splitsville" or "phffft"). He gave advice to F.D.R. and took favors from J. Edgar Hoover. At times Winchell was the news, as when Murder Inc. boss Louis Lepke surrendered to him and Hoover; at times the columnist withheld it, when someone like Clare Boothe Luce asked nicely. He created the new world of gossip, and ruled it from such perches of power as Table 50, the Royal Box, in the Cub Room at the Stork Club. Were Winchell and the other columnists there because the celebrities were, or vice versa? Probably both: it was a case...
...flickering in black and white for a moment, a few frames of '30s movies. Daniel Pearl, I gather, had the gleam. A sheer avidity to know things is the most endearing trait of any journalist. Long ago, the novelist and journalist John Hersey wrote in a sketch of Henry Luce, "He was amazed and delighted to learn whatever he had not known before." Curiosity is the noblest form of intellectual energy; in any case, your mind goes nowhere without it--except maybe to fanaticism...
...flickering in black and white for a moment, a few frames of '30s movies. Daniel Pearl, I gather, had the gleam. A sheer avidity to know things is the most endearing trait of any journalist. Long ago, the novelist and journalist John Hersey wrote in a sketch of Henry Luce, "He was amazed and delighted to learn whatever he had not known before." Curiosity is the noblest form of intellectual energy; in any case, your mind goes nowhere without it - except maybe to fanaticism...