Word: orth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after his first postwar leading part (as Shakespeare's penn'orth king, Richard II), Alec had London's dour critics giddily tapping their umbrellas. The Daily Herald: "This is Shakespeare done in a way that gives luster to the English theater. . . ." The Daily Telegraph: ". . . Admirable economy . . . not a touch nor a tone seems wrong." The consensus: Alec Guinness is the most versatile new actor to appear on the British stage since...
...each meeting a Clerk is appointed to gather the "sense of the meeting" on a given subject, reduce it to a minute for the meeting's approval. Quakers find the method makes up in unity for what it loses in dispatch. Its one big failure: the Hicksite-Orth-dox schism...
...their battlefront experiences lad convinced them that the Church needs renewed warnings: | Organized religion has allowed church members to remain religious illiterates. The trouble probably lies in an indirectivay of teaching with high-sounding theo-ogical terms instead of plain talk, which he chaplains found more effective. Hence-orth, civilian clergymen will have to be )etter trained in modern educational methods...
...prize winners are: Mandel Berman, Dotroit, Mich, Philip Coldwell, Clevoland, Ohio, Harry H. Cornelius, Oak Park, Ill, Maxwell L, Elliott, Atlanta, Ga., Robert Shun-Hslaug Lee, Hong Kong, China, Robert D. Orr, Evansville, Ind., Philip W. Orth, Milwankee, Wis., John F.Porter, Los Angeles, Calif., Jerome F. Scott, Minneapolis, Minn., Robert W.Zimmerman, Minneapolis, Minn...
Britain herself can support only 40% of her population from her own resources. . . . If the war is continued until 1942, 60% of the population of Britain will starve. Whether starvation comes this year or the beginning of next does not make a ha'p'orth of difference...