Word: woodstock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other students say they have never heard of the singer, who was popular in the 1960s and appeared at the first Woodstock festival...
...absolute, revealed word of a supreme deity. This proof will never come, and people will continue in their personal religious beliefs, based on one premise, their faith in a particular deity. Only the gullible and naive will still believe that theirs is the one true religion. WILLIAM E. ADINT Woodstock, Connecticut...
There was more to the manifestation in Washington than Farrakhan. But what did it mean? Is there an articulable meaning in the numbers and energy? Was the Million Man March a Woodstock of black American manhood--a vivid but perishable spectacle? A protest without a program, the dictum has it, is mere sentimentality. Or was the march a turning point, a moment of moral lift-off, a Great Awakening? And would there be, down the road when nothing changes, another Great Disillusioning...
DIED. HOWARD KOCH, 93, screenwriter; in Woodstock, New York. A lawyer, Koch wrote radio plays for Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre, notably 1938's panic-provoking War of the Worlds broadcast. His fine craft illuminated film scripts for Casablanca (1942), Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) and-notoriously-the Soviet-friendly Mission to Moscow in 1943. Though not a communist, Koch was blacklisted in the 1950s. He outlived his vilifiers, enduring with grace and grit worthy of Bogart's Rick...
...minutes or so about whatever enters her wimpled head. On Wednesday's installment, she chats with guests, usually priests or laymen who share her conservative views; both segments include calls from viewers. In video terms, it's totally retro, but it works. Says Jesuit Father Thomas Reese of the Woodstock Theological Center in Washington: "She's the most successful Catholic TV evangelist since [Bishop] Fulton Sheen...