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Only 20 and a singer for barely three years, Barbra seldom hits a note on pitch, but she slides into tune with such grace that her quavers often sound intended...
Many bishops readily admit that these and other documents of Vatican II show some omissions and outright failures. The ecclesiastical legislation had to be shaped and sometimes compromised to gain the approval of disparate men-Italian country bishops who have seldom seen Protestants, and Dutch prelates who pray with them almost daily; U.S. cardinals whose most pressing concern is a multimillion-dollar building fund, and Asian missionaries whose church is a Quonset hut. Methodist Observer Albert C. Outler of Texas says that "several of the declarations are substandard; several are no better than mediocre...
Playwright O'Neill, an experimenter at heart, seldom uses exactly the same method twice. He is voracious. Life, and life as portrayed in the theatre, is a business that must be attacked on many fronts. The record of Playwright O'Neill easily establishes him as the nation's greatest...
...scene now shifts back to Boston, where Davis' comments spark a two-week, city-wide search for the statue. Finally, Cornelius Vermeule, curator of classical art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, pieces together the available clues and concludes that the lost relic is in a seldom-trod corner in the museum's basement. The subject of the fuss, a 92-in. bronze statue titled Young Diana, is a somewhat androgynous-looking nymph. Vermeule's professional opinion: "There is indeed a strong resemblance-her profile, the contours of her face, and her eyes...
...volleyball and basketball competitions of the past are gone. Also suspended are the daily four-or five-mile runs that the Marines took along the road circling their encampment, as well as the routine 15-to 20-man patrols of the streets of Hay es Sullum. Now the soldiers seldom venture far from their bunkers. Under what they call the shade tree, the men relax on bright orange lawn chairs donated by the U.S. embassy in Beirut. Long hours are spent cleaning weapons, and standard attire for a visit to the showers is now gym shorts, flak jacket and steel...