Word: tented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Herald (circ. 225,169) is an earnest Baptist who goes to church twice every Sunday-once to worship, and once to report on a new congregation in his column, "A Stranger in Church." Last week, obeying his instincts as both believer and newsman, Taft was working to expose the tent-show evangelism of a faith healer...
...first night Taft attended the tent show of the Rev. Jack Coe of Dallas, who has been drawing 6,000 Miamians nightly, he saw no healing efforts, wrote a tolerantly favorable story. But the next night he witnessed some "cures"-and started digging. On the Herald's front page he showed that there had been no real changes in the physical conditions of Miamians the revivalist had claimed to cure. Taft found, for example, that a crippled woman who had ostentatiously flung aside a pair of crutches had never ordinarily used them. Taft also showed that Coe stood...
...Oral Roberts (TIME, July 11) is somebody. He regularly conducts faith-healing meetings over 300 radio and 115 TV stations, and draws crowds wherever he pitches his revival tent. Since Australia usually welcomes visiting U.S. performers with open arms, his campaign down under should have gone well. But even before he landed in Sydney, a group of Australian preachers denounced him as a "fraud and impostor...
...admixture of comedy and farce, which destroys utterly the few intelligent, sophisticated bits, probably can be blamed on the cast. Director John Gerstad has taken a salon comedy and turned it into a circus-tent shriek show. Practically every player, with the exception of Tom Helmore, the seductive, Northern journalist, over-acts...
Principal Events: Ten years of stalemate had set Greek nerves on edge, and Hero Achilles quarreled at last with King Agamemnon over a slave girl. Thereafter, while his countrymen lost battle after battle, Achilles sulked in his tent. Disaster threatened. Patroclus, the hero's friend, drove the Trojans back to their gates, but was killed by Hector, who then led a charge that nearly hurled the frightened Greeks into the sea. Forth then Achilles to avenge his friend. The heroes met, and Hector was killed. Achilles himself died at the hand of Paris, whose arrow found his heel...