Word: oscars
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...Comparable in importance to the Dead Sea Scrolls and of even greater significance to students of the New Testament." That is how visiting Swiss Theologian Oscar Cullmann (TIME, March 23) described the subject of his lecture at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary last week. Lutheran Cullmann was giving the public a first detailed and fascinating report on the so-called Gospel of St. Thomas, one of 44 Coptic manuscripts in leatherbound papyrus books found in 1946 in a tomb in upper Egypt some 60 miles from the city of Luxor...
Switzerland's Oscar Cullmann, professor of early church history and New Testament at Basel University and one of Europe's top Protestant theologians, was visiting Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary last week, busy with lectures, seminars and informal discussions. The talk that stirred up the most discussion-and brought an unprecedented turnout of Roman Catholic priests to Union-was not on the problems of eschatology and exegesis, for which he is well known, but on the practical problems of Protestant-Catholic relations. Theologian Cullmann reiterated a proposal that has been catching on increasingly in Europe: Protestant...
Such talks soon made Pamela a public figure, ripe for network display on the Jack Paar show. Her new career seems assured as long as the talk fad continues. Says Oscar Levant, the top word slinger of them all: "Pamela, I think you've finally found your niche-just this side of vulgarity...
...landlady was one of the delights of the evening. Robert Scher, as the eventual recipient of Ruth's long repressed affections, made up for an adequate voice with his ease and natural stage manner. The roles of the Village lovers, the Wreck and his Helen, were capably filled by Oscar Anderson and Jill Kneerim...
...performance is even palely entertaining, and it is, homage should be directed to the feet of Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, who wrote the thing in the first place, using a conventional mistaken-identity farce as a platform from which to mount a deadpan, deadly, beautifully epigrammatic attack on the hypocrisy of a society which was soon, hypocritically, to cast...