Word: goodwin
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Damn the Sultan!" No one knows when City Temple began, but in 1640 Dissenter Thomas Goodwin, later chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, was holding regular services. It was not until 1873 that it began to attract its biggest audiences. To hear the "pulpit genius," Dr. Joseph Parker, actors, authors, artists and bohemians pressed into City Temple alongside primmer Victorians. Preacher Parker often rewarded them with a shocker; when, during the Turkish-Armenian hostilities, he thundered. "I say God damn the Sultan!'', the newspapers headlined: DR. PARKER LETS HIMSELF...
Kennedy's own performance was as unpredictable as his audiences. Often, when his political antennae sensed the mood of his listeners, he threw away his carefully prepared texts (to the despair of such highcaliber, hard-working speechwriters as Dick Goodwin, Ted Sorensen and John Bartlow Martin) and launched into impromptu speeches with an eloquence and fervor that reminded middle-aged listeners of the young F.D.R., and touched off wild ovations. Again, he plodded through his speeches as unenthusiastically as his listeners responded to them. Under the direction of Voice Coach Blair McClosky, the Kennedy voice was usually well modulated...
...history, and it raised a big fuss. "Some how we have never thought that it could occur in this country." said New South Wales's Premier Robert Heffron sadly. Whenever the Thornes left their home, carloads of reporters and cameramen tagged along. The family pastor. Anglican Minister Clive Goodwin, who had offered to serve as go-between with the kidnapers, withdrew after two days, explaining that so much publicity made his intermediary's role "no longer possible...
...Pulham, Esq., the caste-conscious Harvard snob, resigns himself to life in a narrowing circle of middle-aged Bostonian complacency (" 'If I had had the guts' -I sometimes find myself thinking, and a part of the old restlessness comes back"). Melville Goodwin, U.S.A. tries to break out of the Army closed circuit, away from the old ways, the old wife, the old family-but in the end he goes home, as all Marquand heroes must...
Wrote the Daily Express' Noel Goodwin: "The foremost British composer since Shakespeare's own day here meets our national genius on equal terms...