Word: nut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rise at 6 for Mass and meditation, spend until 11 p.m. each day listening to a total of 15 sermons. The first four topics, for example, are ideals, habitual grace, laymen in the church, actual grace. The fifth, on piety, attacks Christian hypocrisy-"hits at every variety of religious nut," says one Cursillista. The prodigal son is an insistent theme; laymen provide practical instruction on how Cursillistas can apostolically serve God on the "fourth day" of the Cursillo-their life after the course ends...
...such girls in particular are the talk of Broadway's present season: Sandy Dennis, the coy mistress of a corporate president in Any Wednesday; and Elizabeth Ashley, who, as a new bride living in a fifth-floor walkup, is part wife, part nut in Barefoot in the Park...
...What do you think I am," demands Keenan Wynn, "some kind of nut?" Fortunately for Wynn, that is exactly what Lieut. Colonel Robert Mitchum thinks. As an American Army officer full of paranoiac fantasies, Wynn has admitted killing a British noncom stationed at his jungle outpost of Bachree because the sergeant was "defiling the white race" by consorting with native women. Mitchum, assigned to defend Wynn in a general court-martial, thinks that motive irrational enough for Wynn to plead insane and save his neck...
HALLELUJAH THE HILLS. Vermont is the setting for a surrealistic camping trip in this hilarious first feature by U.S. Director Adolfas Mekas, a hard-shell cinema nut from the Lower East Side...
...batboy for the Birmingham Barons. He tried to buy the Detroit Tigers and the Chicago White Sox, failed each time, finally got his chance when the Kansas City Athletics went on the block in 1960. Plunking down $4,000,000 in cash, he confided: "I'm a baseball nut...