Word: today
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...working his way through the philosophical skepticism of the logical positivists rampant at Cambridge University when he was there. He arrived in the U.S. for good in 1952, and has preached in Chicago for 18 years. As a preacher, he tries to translate the Gospel into the idiom of today, so that "the Bible comes alive and the Christian faith is made believable." One way that Davies makes the Bible come alive during his sermons is by gesturing, mimicking and acting out roles with the skill of a Marcel Marceau. But he finds it "appalling and tragic" that present...
...film is, in many respects, Bette Midler. Rose grew up in warm Florida, Bette in balmy Hawaii, and they were both unhappy. In Bette's family, as she remembers, there was always a lot of angry bellowing from her father, a house painter for the Navy. Even today Fred Midler has not come to see one of her shows, a source of obvious pain to his daughter. But Bette had a hardship even Rose didn't have: hers was the only Jewish family in a neighborhood of Samoans...
...retrospect, he saw himself as a lifelong moderator. He had forborne, hoping others would forbear, and they had not. He had toiled in back rooms while shallower men held the stage. They held it still. Even five years ago he would never have admitted to such sentiments. But today, peering calmly into his own heart, Smiley knew that he was unled, and perhaps unleadable; that the only restraints upon him were those of his own reason, and his own humanity. As with his marriage, so with his sense of public service. I invested my life in institutions-he thought without...
Eighteen years after the Gablers began their crusade, Edward Jenkinson, professor of education at Indiana University, calls them "the two most powerful people in education today." That is an overstatement. But the Gablers have certainly inspired attacks on textbooks by a host of community groups and thousands of parents throughout...