Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stern Stereotype. The saps are in full flood among the situation comedies too. Most cynical confection of the season is The Flying Nun (ABC), a mating of The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins. Cutesy Star Sally Field, 21, plays a swinging nun whose starchy cornet launches her airborne in the wind cur rents around her Puerto Rican convent. Naturally, her antics appall the stern, stereotyped mother superior, but Sister Sally manages endless good works and bad gags, such as a crash landing in an Army garbage dump...
...special session of the Bundestag, German lawmakers last week nodded their approval of Mifrifi,* a pro gram of stern tax measures and lower government spending designed to elim inate a $16 billion budget deficit for 1968-71. Paradoxically, they also approved an extraordinary budget for a $1.3 billion public-works program. Both moves were part of an effort to boost the German economy from the recession that began last fall...
...Novelist Constantine FitzGibbon, intellectuals tend to follow a double standard. If the war happens to trigger their emotions, they don't worry much about moral behavior. "If the struggle is remote," he writes, "it can be viewed as an intellectual exercise and a moral problem. Stern judgments can then be handed down, and safely. It would seem that for the run-of-the-mill intellectual, the less he knows about a complex issue far away the stronger his moral judgments...
Mormon temple. Ronna's parents, who are not Mormons, were not permitted to witness the ceremony. Her mother divorced Ronna's father, James Stern, and is now married to Will Kraus, a Presbyterian. Also not present to be sealed in the family unit was Ronna's three-year-old son, Kevin, whom Ronna and Scott plan to adopt and give the surname of Romney...
Married. Scott Romney, 26, eldest son of Michigan's Governor; and Ronna Eileen Stern, 23 (see RELIGION...