Word: classes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pollard delivers three sermons a week, teaches a Bible class for some 500 prominent laymen every Tuesday, and prepares both a TV and a radio program weekly. "But if ser mons are not drawn directly from the Bible," he says firmly, they're "just speechmaking." With all the competing forms of commercial art and entertainment today, Pollard figures, the continuing demand for preaching "can't be explained in any other terms than that God is using...
Adani, a Levantine of unspecified nationality, contains all the ruthlessness, greed, ill temper and bad manners heretofore ascribed to some Jewish studio heads. The unfortunate result is to create two stereotypes where one is more than enough. The characterization nevertheless has its uses. Adani sends a class operator to California to make a deal with Farber. He bears the elegant name of Guy Barrere and a resume that includes the Columbia University School of Journalism and Rolling Stone...
...himself deeply rattled by the Tolstoy hero's mounting despair, especially by the question Ilych asks himself: "Maybe I did not live as I ought to have done?" Querying himself in the same manner, Strickland realizes that he loathes his career, the expensive trappings of his upper-middle-class existence and his marriage of twelve years...
Tiny but hardly fragile, she flew tourist class, praying briefly before the jet touched down at Oslo's Fornebu Airport. Dressed as always in blue-trimmed white sari and sandals, with a threadbare wool overcoat her only concession to subfreezing temperatures, Serbian-born Mother Teresa, 69, the "angel of the slums" of Calcutta, arrived to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. At her request, the Nobel committee eschewed the traditional banquet after the presentation and donated the $7,000 that the dinner for 135 would have cost to her Calcutta-based Missionaries of Charity, who will use the money...
...title would be lost. Jammed into Fort Worth's convention center, the crowd of 9,200 that had been roaring for its favorites sensed the meaning of the moment and fell silent: never before had an American tested muscle and nerve under such pressure in a world-class gymnastics showdown...