Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ever play unless you think you have the best hand or the makings of one. Don't become interested in second-best hands...
...University of Denver postponed an athletic crisis by remembering that transfer students must wait a year before playing on varsity teams. Until someone read the rule book, the university golf team, which often practices at private clubs, faced a season of play restricted to public courses. A likely looking 19-year-old sophomore who had transferred from Doane College, Crete, Neb. seemed certain to make the team-and just as sure not to be welcome at Denver's private clubs. The promising golfer is named Nate Goldstein. He is a Negro...
...second Pusey position with which Bartley takes issue is that religion should be "a unifying force in the curriculum." Christianity is certainly unfitted to play this role, Bartley contends. "There are too many different Christianities-even at Harvard Divinity School-for Christianity to act as a system on which Western men might practically agree today, whatever its unifying power half a millennium ago . . . The greatest of those who are 'trying to bring it up to date,' Paul Tillich, is regarded as a heretic by many others who wish to return it to fundamentalism or Thomism...
...Sermon on the Mount," says British Writer (and former Punch Editor) Malcolm Muggeridge, "viewers would either have switched on to another channel, or contented themselves with remarking that the speaker had an interesting face." Yet Christ is currently much in evidence on British TV. Most startling example: a Passion play in which Christ is a young man with an Elvis Presley haircut, scuffed loafers and worn jeans. The Virgin Mary, plump and nondescript, was the British version of anybody's mum. Pontius Pilate was suave and courteously detached in a well-pressed lounge suit, nonchalantly lighted a cigarette after...
Producer Reddington last week was planning to film his blue-jeaned Passion play for worldwide TV distribution...