Word: mervyn
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Even by the unfettered standards of Britain's Anglican hierarchy, the Bishop of Southwark is known as a bold and outspoken churchman. In addition to sponsoring a host of adventurous urban missions, the Rt. Rev. Mervyn Stockwood has over the years defended homosexuals, denounced Anglican policy on divorce as cowardly, told ribald stories in public and revealed the drinking habits of his fellow clerics in a book called The Compleat Imbiber...
...FESTIVAL. Dylan Thomas: The World I Breathe. Award-winning portrait of the Welsh poet. Program includes recordings of his own readings, as well as interviews with his close friends Novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson and Painter Mervyn Levy. Repeat...
Black people, L.A. State Senator Mervyn Dymally told the McCone commission investigating the Watts riot, "generally expected the worst from the police?and generally received it." Even after Watts had been pacified in 1965, Parker could not help exulting: "We're on the top, and they're on the bottom...
...FOOLING OF KING ALEXANDER by Mervyn Skipper, illustrated by Gaynor Chapman (Atheneum; $4.50). A small Chinese boy saves his country by tricking the great conqueror Alexander. First published in 1930, the story is still good, the illustrations excellent...
Moment to Moment. For his 75th movie, Director Mervyn LeRoy (Little Women, Little Caesar) takes on a case of adultery in France and loses it. While Heroine Jean Seberg languishes around Cannes in St. Laurent originals, her Psychiatrist Husband Arthur Hill leaves her and goes traipsing through Europe on behalf of mental health. Of course, Jean meets a smooth young Navy ensign (Sean Garrison) who seems uncertain whether he is supposed to be wearing his uniform or modeling...