Word: whit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sterner note. Lancashire-born Preacher Griffith was taken to Canada by his opera-singer parents when he was eight, joined the ministry 15 years ago, served Ottawa's fashionable United Church for the past eleven years. He accepts the Bible as divinely inspired, is not a whit interested in psychiatry. In a church whose tradition is liberal, he is perhaps the true nonconformist: a conservative...
...Norman. Harvard's ace said he notices this, too. "I read at the end of the season how so-and-so has completed so many passes for so many yards, and then I look at my own statistics, and they're not so good. It bothers me not a whit. As dence in me. I don't want to be an All-American--I'm not that silly...
...Oxford University Union Society to hear the titans. The resolution before the group: "That this house holds America responsible for spreading vulgarity in Western society." Chief spokesman for the affirmative: Britain's wily Gamesman Stephen Potter. Voice of the negative: rotund, orotund Orson Welles, not a whit shaken by his introduction as "the best film director-actor in the world today.'' Welles readily agreed that stereotyped U.S. culture is not easily defended: "This mass reduction of human dignity makes me sick." But he hastened to absolve the U.S. of disseminating vulgarity throughout the rest of the West...
...subject, for, at the age of 19, he lost his sight. The Good Light continues the fictionalized autobiography Bjarnhof began with his remarkable The Stars Grow Pale (TIME, April 28, 1958), taking his hero from boyhood into adolescence. The new book defies the law of sequels by being every whit as good as the first...
...lithe young figure of Errol Flynn. Suddenly the dark wall of foliage opens, and a hail of spears comes streaming through. Ambush! The native bearer next to Flynn falls dead with a spear through his belly, and Flynn is struck in the foot by a poisoned arrow. Not a whit dismayed, the hero leaps behind a tree, whips out his revolver and starts firing. With the first shot he brings down one of the nasty savages. The rest of them melt into the jungle...