Word: tente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before Billy Graham is through, a lot more people will begin looking for it-in the Inquiry Tent...
...rest of his team-a cluster of smoothly dressed young men with religious backgrounds and comely wives. In both matter and manner, Billy Graham has come a long way from the Los Angeles days when he billed himself as "America's Sensational Young Evangelist" in a "Mammoth Tent Crusade" with "Glorious Music, Dazzling Array of Gospel Talent, 22 Tremendous Nights." Today's ads consist mainly of the words "Hear Billy Graham," plus a picture. Says Jerry Beavan ("pronounced like heaven"), Graham's 31-year-old public-relations man: "When you see an advertisement for a Cadillac...
...feature length film about a Shakespeare festival can contain a total of 30 seconds of scenes from the plays. On the other hand, the camera spends long minutes in searching the agonized faces of a board of directors who are trying to raise enough money to build the theatre tent. Such scenes currently may be instructive to the Undergraduate Theatre Committee; they are of little use to anyone else...
Across Indo-China's 17th parallel - the truce line set at Geneva-moved the long, weary procession of refugees from the Communist North. In the South they were received on farms or in improvised tent cities which the U.S. helped supply; most of them will eventually be assigned new land. Among these anti-Communist refugees were 10,000 soldiers of a special type. They looked no different from the other Vietnamese peasants, but they were the remnants of one of the last real church armies in the world: the fighting Catholics of Tonkin, led by round, shrewd Bishop Thaddeus...
...pictures opposite represent a vanished era in a primitively bold way. Part of a set of 13 oils recently discovered in Auburn, N.Y., they went on show this week in a tent on the grounds of the New York State Historical Association in Cooperstown. Nobody knows who painted them. The artists worked on the scale of the present-day "New York School" abstractionists, for the pictures measure 7 ft. by 10 ft. and up. All 13 pictures (painted on mattress ticking) were commissioned over a century ago by one George Mastin. a Genoa. N.Y. tailor, farmer, phrenologist violin player...