Word: supper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...telephone rings in the big house at Sagamore Hill. "Is that you, Archie?" pipes a small boy's voice. "No, this is Archie's father," a man answers. "Oh, well, you'll do," says the small boy. "Tell Archie to be sure to come to supper tonight." Grinning, Archie's dad, the 26th President of the U.S., hangs up the receiver. "How the creatures do order one about," he says...
...through Broadway's annual Tony awards, which, since their inception in 1947, have been staged with all the glitter and glamour of a church supper. "Broadway deserves better," Cohen decided, and seven months ago he bought the rights to produce this year's awards show, then wooed American Airlines into sponsoring the event on network TV. Last week the new Tony-poised, polished, brimming with talent-arrived at Manhattan's Shubert Theater and, in one swinging sweep, made Emmy and Oscar look merely like tired vaudevillians...
...priests and ministers, and non-Catholics are no longer required to promise that they will raise their children in the church. Interfaith Eucharists, although forbidden by Rome, are common. Many of these have been celebrated by an ecumenical organization called Shalom, which every Friday re-enacts the Last Supper in the guise of a "Eucharistic happening" or a "love meal." Members of the group, which includes Protestants and Catholics, take turns consecrating the elements and distributing Communion...
...episcopate was abolished, since Luther had found no Scriptural warrant for the office of bishop. Clerical celibacy was abandoned, even for monks and nuns-and in 1525, Luther married a former nun, Katherine von Bora. The sacraments were reduced from seven to two: baptism and the Lord's Supper. Luther revised the Latin liturgy and translated it into German, allowing the laity to receive the consecrated wine as well as the Host, substituting a new popular hymnody for Gregorian chant. Emphasis in worship changed from the celebration of the sacrificial Mass to the preaching and teaching...
...face straight out of Terry and the Pirates and the sort of figure that looks better to a camera than it does to a man. And Jeanne Moreau has the bitsy body and petulant face (except when she smiles) of a very small child sent to bed without her supper...