Word: twists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baptists Convention finds its Sunday School Board pamphlet, "Baptists, Roman Catholics and Religious Freedom," in new demand. Published several years ago, the pamphlet has had modest circulation; this summer, requests for 300,000 copies have already rolled in. The religious issue is even being played with a special Southern twist. When New Orleans Archbishop Joseph Rummel issued a pastoral letter deploring the resistance to public school integration, there was an uproar from the fringe. Snarled Louisiana's arch-segregationist Leander H. Perez, himself a Catholic: "The letter can only be interpreted as the Catholic hierarchy's endorsement...
...international reputation of the Harvard Summer School gained a new twist at the week's end. Received by the "Social Secretary" of that institution was a communique from Able Seamen Canning, Scott, and Smith of HMS Barnard at Greenoch, Scotland, asking consorts for future group maneuvers in North Atlantic waters...
...comic Bergman comes as rather an odd twist to those who have been brought up on Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal. It is hard to conceive of the careful perpetrator of Gothic terror making effective use of slapstick--yet this is exactly what he does in the funniest scenes of the film. At one point (in one of many flashbacks) the young gynecologist interrupts his best friend's wedding with the news that he is going to marry his best friend's betrothed. The action begins with a furniture-throwing brawl between the bride elect and her drunken groom...
...have 200 nuclear submarines and the U.S. a President who is devoted to Bach. It is also the year that Lord Clonard, the P.R. man of moneyless title through whose eyes most of the events are seen, notes that London's girlie shows have taken a perverse, sadistic twist. Swarms of young men openly hold hands in the street and neck in Hyde Park, and prostitutes walk naked under their raincoats or furs. A dozen Reading Gaols would not hold all the homosexual offenders or 50 Bridewells all the convicted tarts, so that there is talk-just talk...
...distant stars. The puny motions of a vehicle on the earth, or the motions of the earth itself, have no effect on a gyroscope. If its axis is pointing at the Pleiades, it will continue to point in that direction, no matter how objects near it may twist and turn...