Word: veras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history called The Inheritance that drew more than 10,000 letters. Next year NBC and the Baptists will offer a major life of Christ. The Roman Catholic Paulist Fathers' Insight presents adult melodrama in half-hour playlets about abortion, divorce and alcoholism, featuring such stars as Raymond Massey, Vera Miles and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. NBC's The Catholic Hour is offering a four-part series on the Second Vatican Council and the future of church renewal...
...Actuality. In fact, this is an outrageously bad book, written by an author with very little of interest to say, even to herself, and very little skill in saying it. It is composed of a swamp of hallucinated recollections, in the center of which resides a distracted spinster named Vera Cartwheel. She dithers madly and endlessly about her childhood, which was spent-in thin reality or thin dream-in a fantastic seaside mansion in New England. There she lived, or never lived at all, with an opium-soaked mother, two butlers, only one of them real, a spooky lawyer named...
Miss Macintosh, who may have been a man and who was almost certainly a suicide. All this is recalled on a nightmarish bus trip, which the middle-aged Vera takes, or does not take, in search of the dead Miss Macintosh...
...time and effort detaining petty offenders while they wait for a hearing? New York City police now agree that it makes far more sense simply to give the accused a summons ordering him to appear in court later. Evidence is the Manhattan Summons Project, a pioneering experiment by the Vera Foundation, which is already noted for getting pretrial defendants released on their own recognizance without bail (TIME, July 12, 1964). The summons project is a simple interview system run mostly by law students. For example, a young woman garment worker and mother of three was recently arrested for shoplifting...
Ship of Fools. In her mordant 1962 bestseller, Novelist Katherine Anne Porter unsparingly scrutinized what she described as "the ship of this world on its voyage to eternity." Her passengers were pimps, bigots, weaklings and other morally rumpled types, booked from Veracruz to Bremerhaven on the German vessel Vera during the early 1930s. Skirting the allegorical deeps, Producer-Director Stanley Kramer and Scenarist Abby Mann (Judgment at Nuremberg) have turned Ship into just another showboat-a flashy popular melodrama, acted with everyman-for-himself urgency by a troupe of scintillating international stars...