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Admittedly this is a debatable opinion; those who swoon at "Sweet Nightingale" or "Fain Would I Wed a Fair Young Maid" will contest strongly any attempt to shroud Dyer-Bennett with the critic's cloak of scorn. Yet for one who seeks in a folk singer a versatility extending beyond repertory, including a versatility of personality, Dyer-Bennett falls short of being engaging...
...March 27 The Shroud of Turin (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). A religious documentary about the burial cloth kept at Turin, Italy that has been honored for centuries as Christ's. A Good Friday repeat for the sixth year...
...move so swiftly that complexities of Willie's evil drive for self-esteem were lost, it surged with the brutal power of Willie's premise: "Man is conceived in sin, born in corruption, and he passes from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud...
...person out of her seat. She leaped through the hole. As she touched the ground, there was a flash of blue sparks, and she crumpled to the ground. In breaking, the tree had pulled down a 2,400-volt power line, left the wire draped as a single-strand shroud over the metal hulk...
...Under a shroud as concealing as the wraps around an Atlas missile last week was the U.S. budget for the fiscal year 1959 (beginning next July 1). But like a big missile's cover, the shroud could scarcely conceal the gigantic bulk record peacetime $73.5 billion to $74 billion. Even a few of the budget's major components were becoming noticeable. Items...