Word: sojourns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Verily the Rev. Robert H. Schuller has journeyed far from the California drive-in theater where he founded the Garden Grove Community Church in 1955. Four years did he sojourn there, and the cars in his flock did wax and grow, and so he later moved to a larger church with a bigger parking lot costing $3 million. But still did his ministry prosper, faster yet in 1970 when the pastor began his nationwide Hour of Power on TV. "We were turning people away," he cried. So Architect Philip Johnson has built him a Crystal Cathedral of gleaming glass...
...begins Jerry Skolimowski's The Shout, a tedious, fabricated "sojourn" into the world of mental illness, the realm between fantasy and reality, and the hinterland of primitive magical heeby-jeebies. This film has been widely praised and heartily recommended for "serious moviegoers" (always beware of this one) and has won for itself a slew of awards. Its style has been praised as the cinematic equivalent of James Joyce, which it may well be, but then again, when was the last time you picked up Finnegan's Wake for a couple hours of enlightenment...
...American corporations and church groups. Scott, who was one of four journalists allowed to hitch a ride, thus became one of the few American newsmen in years to be given a firsthand look inside the capital of war-ravaged Cambodia. His report on that extraordinary two-day sojourn appears in this week's World section...
...reconsidered his energy and economic policies at his triple-fenced Camp David retreat, President Carter remained totally inaccessible to the press. Finally last Friday the President invited a group of journalists and network anchormen to helicopter to his mountaintop and hear the insights he had gained from his sojourn. Among his 18 luncheon guests was TIME'S Washington contributing editor Hugh Sidey, who, in addition to writing his regular Presidency column, reported from Camp David for this week's cover story...
...plant, however, Khan was politely but firmly told to leave Almelo, and went back to work in his Amsterdam laboratory. Shortly afterward, he told friends that he had been asked to return to his native Pakistan and serve in the Economic Affairs Ministry. Sadly, he bade them goodbye, his sojourn in Holland completed...