Word: vincent
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...Digest Bible comes with ringing publicity hosannas from the likes of Norman Vincent Peale, Oral Roberts, Pat Boone (an "authentic Bible feast!"), Executive Director John Mostert of the conservative American Association of Bible Colleges, and President Donald Shriver of New York City's liberal Union Theological Seminary ("an important new addition to the life of Christians, the churches and the world . . ."). So far, only cranky Fundamentalists seem to be offended. They argue that Christians must take the Bible straight, the way God gave it. Warns the Christian Beacon: "The Reader's Digest has done a good...
...Transcript of grand jury questioning of Susan Atkins, in Vincent Bugliosi, Heller Skelter
...direction of Ingmar Bergman, she is an actress of depth and stature. This time, however, she seems mostly at sea, or up the fjord. Director John Neville (who also chews through the role of Pastor Manders) has staged Ibsen as if the playwright were the resident bard of the Vincent Crummies Acting Company from Nicholas Nickleby: all pregnant pauses, awkward gestures, broad hints and unexpected laughs. Neville's Ghosts seems to have taken a wrong turn in the provinces and wound up, startled and unprepared, on the main stem. -By Jay Cocks
Even so, Sangster has a unique way with horses, one that combines sporting instinct with clerkish fussiness on a corporate scale. He describes it as "horribly businesslike." At the core of his operation is a first-rate staff. Irish Trainer Vincent O'Brien, 65, for instance, is one of those souls who commune with Thoroughbreds somewhere beyond speech. O'Brien's canny ways brought the team its first big season in 1977: the $200,000 stallion The Minstrel won four major European races and was syndicated at $9 million. Pat Hogan is Sangster's "salt...
...their own ghosts on a television screen. Everything that we are not has a kind of evanescent being within us. We dream, and the dream is much of the definition of the true self. Last week Lena Home said that she has always imagined herself being a teacher. Norman Vincent Peale says fervently that he wanted to be a salesman-and of course that is, in a sense, what he has always been. Opera Singer Grace Bumbry wants to be a professional race-car driver. Bill Veeck, former owner of the Chicago White Sox, confides the alternate Veeck: a newspaperman...