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...told the church in his inaugural sermon, in which he also cited the late Dag Hammarskjöld's aphorism: "In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action." The time has passed, said Hines, when Christians can retreat within their ecclesiastical for tress to recite prayers and polish brass. "The church is caught up today in the throes of a worldwide convulsion, the basic ferment of which is the thrust for freedom and dignity and hope on the part of the little people of the world. The church as an agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Episcopalians: Holiness Through Action | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

...like Hollywood's George Peppard (Breakfast at Tiffany's) and Off Broadway's Joyce Ebert (The Trojan Women). This summer he has a witty, elegant Portia, a sunlit Viola, and a really arachnid Regan, all in the person of Elixabeth Huddle, a 25-year-old ac tress from San Francisco. Richard Coe, drama critic of the Washington Post, recently came away from Ashland pro claiming her "the finest young undiscovered actress in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stage: The Shakescene | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

Grasshopper King. Life with Louis was just one damned thing after another. As the first member of the middle class ever to become an official mis tress to a French King, Pompadour was target for the gibes of high-born courtiers from the day she was installed in the palace in 1745 until the day she died there-after dutifully getting the King's permission to do so-in 1764. At first her intellectual mentor, Voltaire, had to correct her in a whisper at state dinners because her middle-class turn of phrase was so foreign to the phony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ages of Sin | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

Arboretum: A collection of tress and shrubs grown for educational and scientific purposes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Court Takes Action on University Suit | 11/1/1961 | See Source »

...batters wildly about one or another light o' love. Most welcome in her performance is the restraint put on the all-too-well-known Hepburn mannerisms-apparently by Director Anthony, a man who once heated up an old chestnut and hurled it at another overactive ac tress: "Look, dear, don't just do something, stand there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 31, 1956 | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

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