Word: tente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pastor Wyrick seems to share the old circus maxim that "the first thing to do is get 'em in the tent," he makes no apologies. He believes that only the people who are in the church can hear the sermon. "I feel that I'm doing God's work," he said last week, "but just because it's God's work I don't have to be on a mountaintop. You get the respect you deserve, and you don't get any more for sitting on a pedestal...
Despite the tinhorn sound of the story, the movie manages to capture some of the sad, tawdry flavor of tent-show revivalism. There are authentic twangs to the score, a sweaty, sensuous realism in the swaying backwoods crowd, and vivid glimpses of gnarled God-fearing faces in Grant Wood gothic. The actors are so good they sometimes manage to make what they say seem important...
Moffett, 39, a burly (220 lbs.) former professional boxer turned priest, decided to postpone preaching the Gospel and concentrate on trying to improve living conditions. "What would hungry, sick and suffering people think of a new and beautiful church being built?" he asked himself as he set up a tent to live in. "They would probably hate it," he decided...
...Tents & Stables. Always part child, he was fascinated by circuses ("If the world is to have another beginning, let it start next time in a circus tent-a one-poled circus tent") and by prizefights ("I still give and receive in the imagination the blows, bobbing up and down and wincing and setting my teeth"). Horses were another love. "I seem to have been constantly standing in stables admiring horses and listening to wise talk about them. When there are no horses or yachts to give good names to, we will have to give names to our nearest possessions...
Highlights of the 1961 Circus (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Arthur Godfrey demonstrates his horsemanship under the Ringling Bros Barnum & Bailey Big Tent...