Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Temple Drake is still in sanctuary. The days have not been easy and the pressures have been intense and Temple Drake cries a lot, the hot tears in odd juxtaposition to the rosy cheeks down which they slowly fall. The temptation to give in, to surrender and accept the harsh discipline imposed by the Purdue Marching Band, must be great. But Temple Drake perserves--and in her perseverance is a shining example for beleaguered youth everywhere...
...faith in capitalism that almost matches his fervent faith in Jesus. The title of the sermon with which he kicked off this year's budget drive was called "God's Business Is Big Business." A spellbinding orator, Criswell was chosen by First Baptist in rather an odd way. A graduate of Baylor University, he happened to be preaching in a small Kentucky backwoods church one Sunday in 1934 when a prominent Baptist layman from Nashville, John L. Hill, was present. Hill never forgot the sermon. After the death in 1944 of First Baptist's best-known preacher...
...touch of Now by Director Peter Yates. The movie is full of gritty city details and has a streaking pace that would leave Jim Ryun winded. As the beleaguered cop, McQueen is surprisingly subtle, mixing his customary hip swagger with an urban high-strung sensibility; like Oscar in The Odd Couple, he is so tense he has clenched hair...
...Odd Couple--Not nearily as funny as a picture with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau should be (or, for example, as The Fortune Cookie actually was). At the HARVARD SQUARE...
...FREDERICK DOUGLAS Book Store at 49 Mass. Ave. in Boston is an odd place to set up shop for a Presidential campaign. Old torn posters--some from the days of the Russian Revolution--are on the walls, together with newer ones of Che and Mao. The shelves are stacked high with used, decaying paperbacks, works of Balzac, Stendahl, and Marx. An old wooden table, painted blue, runs along the middle of the store. On it sit a stack of copies of "The Daily World" and some paper cups half filled with stale coffee...