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...fulsome performance. Next day Humphrey was off to Houston for a two-hour inspection of the Manned Spacecraft Center, then up to Oklahoma City, where he attended the Oklahoma Democratic Party's first $ 100-a-plate dinner (hamburgers and cole slaw) and delivered a ringing, one-hour sermon on the glories of the Great Society. He was back in Washington for only twelve hours before Johnson dispatched him to London as the top American in the official cortege bringing home the body of Adlai Stevenson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vice-Presidency: Playing Second Clarinet | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

After the sermon and the sit-in, U.S. churches are now using economic pressure to assist the Negro in his struggle for social and economic justice. Both Catholic and Protestant bodies are trying to see that the millions of dollars they hand out daily to commercial firms go to companies with fair-employment hiring practices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Churches: Financing Fair Employment | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

...remember when we both discovered Joyce in the same week and you read me the great sermon in Portrait until I cried and I read you his poems until you cried while we were walking round and round the Quad dodging frisbees...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: Moonlight Sonata | 5/25/1965 | See Source »

Graham's critics argue that the sense of spiritual brotherhood he creates often lasts no longer than the memory of his sermon. In answer, Billy argues that a true conversion to Christ inevitably affects man's racial attitude. Moreover, he believes that his kind of preaching may have a special value for the South, where both white and Negro share a common tradition of reverence for Gospel-centered Christianity. And despite "huge psychological barriers," Billy believes that the South may well overcome its racial difficulties faster than the North. "We're building for future generations," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Billy Heads South | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

...refreshing new breed that takes an unprecedented interest in the basics of life. Love, hate, togetherness, solitude, the alienation in an age of anxiety-such topics are so deftly explored by Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts crew that readers who would not sit still for a sermon readily devour the sermon-like cartoons. Some 60 million people follow the strip in 700 newspapers in the U.S. and Canada and 71 abroad. Peanuts is translated into a dozen languages, from Danish (in which the title becomes Little Radishes) to Spanish to Japanese. Schulz's theology has even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comics: Good Grief | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

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