Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nightclub in Paris could do better than the former mortuary chapel of the century-old Protestant American Church, a brick-vaulted cellar with a long flight of stairs leading up to street level. And a nightclub is just what the chapel is, under the Rev. Martin van Buren Sargent, 45, minister of the American Church for the past two years. But Sargent is more than an avant-garde impresario of coffeehouse Christianity. In the main church, he delivers serious, Bible-based sermons to Sunday throngs, worries deeply about the moral problems facing young Americans in Paris, and, as a pastoral...
Catacombs 65. Only 350 people are listed as members of his congregation; yet thousands of tourists jam the American Church on summer Sundays, and about 3,000 U.S. Parisians attend services at least intermittently. Sargent's imaginative methods of evangelism have extended the church's "outreach" to roughly half of the 20,000 Americans in the city, and to a goodly number of Frenchmen as well...
...last week Hucklebuck Logan arose at 5 a.m., bussed to Baltimore's grimy city hall. When the offices opened at 8:30 he signed up as the U.S.'s first volunteer for Poverty Czar Sargent Shriver's brand-new Job Corps. Behind Hucklebuck, to the delight of Job Corps officials who had feared that the corps' first recruiting campaign would draw an embarrassingly puny turnout, came well over 400 more kids from Baltimore. Almost all were school dropouts, few had steady jobs, and about one-third had had trouble with the police...
...Johnson Administration last week fired the opening salvo of its war on poverty-but it had all the impact of a popgun. In a news conference in Austin, Poverty Boss R. Sargent Shriver announced that of the $784.2 million appropriated last October to fight the war, $35 million was being ticketed for 120 projects in 32 states. Among them: $15 million to build or renovate 41 Job Corps sites, and $12 million for community-action programs ranging from English lessons for Papago Indian children in Arizona to retirement communities in southwestern Louisiana...
...Public Exploder (Mark Bramhall) and the two wise men who watched for royal abuses (Daniel Goodenough, Michael Sargent) made a delightful, villainous trio. The remainder of the absurdly large cast (numbering 17, plus a chorus of 26) was inspired...