Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buildings set down at some of the busiest and most valuable corners of the world's life while quick and fascinating currents of thought and life surged around and past them . . . islands of slumbering inactivity amidst the urgent flow of public affairs . . . Second, two particular churches where [I] sat on under dull, mournful, interminable preaching by two elderly gentlemen in funereal black robes-undoubtedly sincere but . . . rather futile . . . The peripheral lethargy if not laziness of the church, the ineptitude if not stupidity of the ministry-irrevelance and futility-these are the two most ineffaceable deposits from early associations...
Other boys were joking about it as they left the hall, but Pit sat down by himself to think it over. He felt far from being a Christian, decided to do nothing about his pledge, just wait and see what would happen. What happened was that the local Episcopalian minister, who got Pitney's pledge card from Evangelist Sunday, spoke to his mother, and Pitney honored his word by joining the church. "If it hadn't been for that, I don't know when I'd have joined, if ever," he says...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Parsifal, with Svanholm, London, Hotter, Vichegonov, Varnay...
Martha Raye Show (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). With Rocky Graziano, J. Fred Muggs...
Around the Corner. In Baltimore, seeking the Republican nomination for governor, Tim Bright defined what he meant by "100% prosperity": "Chicken legs raining around this state like a snowstorm in Chicago . . . turkey gravy dripping . . . like Niagara Falls . . . porterhouse steaks for breakfast," then sat down with his audience to a supper of frankfurters and lemonade...