Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Atlantic has it, and has had it for 20 years. Although Atlantic also does pop (Sonny & Cher, Bobby Darin) and jazz (Charles Lloyd, Modern Jazz Quartet), two-thirds of its single releases and half of its albums feature such soulers as Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Percy Sledge, and - on its associate Memphis label, Stax - Otis Redding and Carla Thomas. Thanks mainly to their vibrant, visceral performances, Atlantic this year has produced six singles that have sold a million copies apiece, and two of its albums have grossed $1,000,-000. Last month it had 18 disks among the 100 bestselling...
...that turned the Fox ledger's $40 million loss that year into a $12.5 million gain in 1966. Altogether this year, the studios will release eight road-show films, next year at least ten. Last week half of Variety's top ten grossers in the U.S.-Thoroughly Modern Millie, Sand Pebbles, A Man for All Seasons, Grand Prix, and The Taming of the Shrew-were on a reserved, or "hard-ticket," basis...
...unhurried tourist, there are trips by steamer, excursion boat or hydrofoil on the Volga and Don rivers from Kazan to Volgograd to Rostovon-Don, along the Dnieper from Kiev to Kherson, up the Neva from Leningrad to Petrodvorets. For the most part, tourists report that the equipment is modern and the service excellent. Says Pomona, Calif., Attorney Graham Talbott, who took his wife on a six-day cruise down the Danube from Vienna to Yalta: "The only annoying aspect was a Big Brother speaker over your bed that never quit issuing orders from the time it woke...
...filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues." Hoping to receive the spirit, Parham and a group of students at Topeka's Bethel Bible College spent an entire day in prayer; finally, after hours of supplication, a girl participant burst into an unintelligible babble. Modern Pentecostalism was born...
History's Backwater. Modernism flowered at a time when Catholicism seemed to be a backwater of intellectual history and the Pope was the intransigent "prisoner of the Vatican." By far the most famous modernist was Abbe Alfred Loisy (1857-1940), a Frenchman, whose book The Gospel and the Church (1902) used the critical tools of modern Scriptural scholarship to justify the dogmatic development from primitive Christianity to the complex Catholicism of his time. In so doing, he conceded that the doctrines of the 20th century church were different from the simple faith of Jesus' first disciples-a judgment...