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...their day into their masses. Most people in England, he argues, are responsive only to the kind of music purveyed on the mass-consumption mediums. What better way to enliven the average congregation's interest in the service than to greet it with the familiar, readily intelligible musical vernacular...
...waste of taxpayers' money because many men use it to get a college education and quit the Navy after serving their minimum three years. But the Holloway Plan flourished despite the criticism on 52 college campuses coast to coast, and a new quip passed into the Navy vernacular. The quip: "Did you get your commission the hard way [i.e., Annapolis] or the Holloway...
Your May 26 account of a young and inexperienced pastor getting his vestments singed is revealing. Sex is what you make it. For his students' parents, sex apparently is still a bestial pleasure, more lucid in the dark than in the vernacular...
...Crimson, however, will counter with some fine runners of its own. Capt. Dave Norris, Dyke Benjamin, French Anderson, and Bill Thompson have been running well in practice sessions, and are, in the vernacular of the sport, apparently "ready...
...claim by a Negro spokesman that the book is "racially offensive" shows a reading in which the racial sensitvity was sharper than the wits. For if there are some "passages derogatory to Negroes" (largely because the vernacular used has since changed in shade of meaning) the total drama shows the dignity and worth of "nigger Jim." Indeed, Huck's own moral growth is a function of his affection and respect for Jim. Other whites show badly in comparison as Jim teaches Huck not mere tolerance, but love. That the process is slow and painful and that it takes place...