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...local torchbearers who have raised or donated $3,000 for the privilege of carrying the flame for one kilometer (five-eighths of a mile). The money that is raised goes to athletic programs for youth clubs and the Special Olympics. "I think it's all right," drawled D.L. Morton, 80, of Tioga, Texas. "Patriotism. You hardly see it any more...
Schlicter's appointment, however, in 1970--along with Yale historian John Morton Blum '43, who has since retired--marked a significant turning point for the board. It was the first time a professor from another university had been chosen, and members say it was an important move, bringing an additional perspective to the University...
...Cathedral Dean Parks Morton believes that Christa "sends a positive message to women," he misjudges some Christian women. I am in favor of the ordination of women as a matter of justice, but I also believe that Christ was a Jewish man who died crucified at a certain date in a certain place. If Jesus of Nazareth has no historical validity, then Christianity has none either...
...displayed in a church. To New York Suffragan Bishop Walter Dennis, it was a "desecration" of Christian symbols. He urged parishioners to write the diocese's presiding bishop, the Rt. Rev. Paul Moore Jr., "if it shocks you as much as it did me." Cathedral Dean James Parks Morton, who organized the display with Moore's concurrence, responded that the effort to "send a positive message to women" had upset only the same people who oppose ordination for women. Said Sandys (who is the granddaughter of Winston Churchill): "It shows that the church still has power and that...
Swing Shift moves like a show horse with a faulty sense of direction. Rob Morton's script lacks both the grit and the incidents for flat-out comedy; it stolidly refuses to kindle the spark of romance between Kay and her swains; and while her girlfriends at the plant seem ripe to make an oddball ensemble, Director Jonathan Demme deflects their few chances for feminist fun. Through the oilcloth of nostalgia one can still spot some fine performances. Hawn unerringly registers Kay's every emotion with the wide-eyed intensity of a six-year-old; Christine Lahti...