Word: reading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your caption for "Sculpture 1959" ["Elegant, Brutal & Witty"] should have read: "Bizarre, Idiotic & Disgusting...
...have just read your article, "Sally's Service," [about British Teen-Ager Sally Moore, who rewrote an Anglican church's evening service for more teen-age appeal-June 15]. I think this gal Sally should take another look at what she is doing to God's service and her fellow youths. If she and other teenagers would put down their Elvis records and Mad comics and turn to the Book of Common Prayer and the Bible, they could better understand the Psalms and Apostles' Creed, instead of having to drop them from their service or distort...
Fingering his floppy straw hat, gaunt Earl Long then stared silently, grimly at his lawyer, Joe Arthur Sims. Sims turned to the judge. "Your Honor, I'd like to read some letters...
...Paris last week, after five days of Intourist tourism, Baptist Graham told reporters he had not been surprised when Russian religious leaders told him that atheism was declining and religion rising in the U.S.S.R. "I could read on the faces of the people a great spiritual hunger, and the sort of insecurity that only God can solve," he said. "We don't like Communism, but we love the Russian people...
...that the old themes are entirely absent-but they must be read between the lines. Hypotenuse in Playwright Greene's triangle is stolid, sluggish Dentist Victor Rhodes (Sir Ralph Richardson), whose single-minded concern for teeth drives his wife Mary (Phyllis Calvert) into a shabby affair with a frustrated bookseller, Clive Root (Paul Scofield). In a scene of Congrevous farce, the lovers are caught by Rhodes, but con their way to freedom. Eventually, Rhodes learns the truth, and Greene suddenly, boldly reveals the decent clod beneath a fool's veneer. Unable to live without his wife, he shamelessly...