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Bulky, erudite Jim McCord has been called a "theologian's theologian" (among the schools he attended: the University of Texas, Union Theological Seminary, Edinburgh's New College), is nevertheless a direct and positive talker, more popular in class than in the pulpit. He has strong ideas about everything. Examples: Missions: "A Gothic cathedral would look strange on a desert, and one can be a Christian without being a westerner. A lot has been said about demythologizing Christianity; well, in missionary work it needs to be deculturized...
...Shake It, Gal." At the Cobb County Fair in Marietta, Ga., the purple cotton candy and the foot-long hot dogs were going great. Duck-tailed farm boys and their girls rode the Ferris wheel for a high-arcing view of the cornfields of home. The talker (spieler) turned them in for 72-year-old Jim Jagger, fire eater ("I will amaze you by rubbing the burning torch over various parts of my body and anatomy"), a tattoo artist and human pincushion. The sword swallower put away a 10-in. blade ("I'll ram it down my bread basket...
...dusty West Texas plains, sharp-booted Texans and their women paid due homage to the "West Texas Fair," took in the livestock and the rodeo, then moved eagerly to the midway. The tip built up in front of the girlie shows (one Negro, one white), and their talker began his pitch: "This, folks, is Jody, who taught those Frenchmen in Paris something about the great American art of the striptease." The crowd rolled in at six bits a head. "Shake it, gal!" they yelled, happily ignorant that Dancer Anita Lopez was a bewigged male. On down the back...
...knows him well and does not quite believe he has arrived is Jack Paar himself. Like any TV performer, Paar watches himself on a monitor set during the show, but he also seems to be watching himself on an imaginary monitor when he is not performing. Compulsive and candid talker that he is, he looks for signs of having said the wrong thing or having been misunderstood. He still broods "When will they start tearing me down?" Or "I wonder how many among my group really love me?" Says a former agent of his: "He has no armor...
...Jordan meets other Phoenix Islanders, she begins to feel that only the sun, sea and sand qualify as neither phony nor vicious. There is a Beat Generation bop-talker who tries to soft-sell Jordan on a cool love affair. There is a native Neanderthal man who tries to pin Jordan to the floorboards of the half-built ginmill in which he hopes to mulct the summer trade. There are assorted homosexuals, spivish repairmen and alcoholics-unanimous from TV, ad alley and publishers' row. The crisis on which the plot slowly turns is whether the Neanderthal man will complete...