Word: normans
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There was one point when Dr. Norman Vincent Peale nearly quit the ministry in a fit of despondency. Described in a new biography,* the crisis took place in 1955. While on his way to Harrison Valley, N.Y., from Manhattan, to visit his dying father, Br. Peale read a highly critical article in Redbook quoting Theologians Liston Pope and Franklin Clark Fry, among others, as calling Peale's type of religion "very nearly blasphemous" and "a parody." As he read, Peale "felt something wince and shrivel inside of him." That night on the train, Peale wrote out his resignation...
Jonathan Kozol's book, published today, is a book for those freshmen and us other adolescents who figure sometimes we're not getting the most out of life. Now Mr. Kozol, despite his current tenure of a Rhodes Scholarship, is no Norman Vincent Peale selling deodorant in the locker-room. Indeed, his skillful fantasy, like most recent Harvard fiction, will not notably amuse the accountants over at the 'Program for Harvard College...
...City Council yesterday unanimously adopted an order directing the City Manager "to confer with the Chief of Police for the purpose of clarifying the rules and regulations relative to all-night parking." The vote followed a speech before the Council by Norman E. Holly...
Does Princess Margaret still love Peter Townsend? Into print in the U.S. last week loomed the latest answer to the old poser: The Peter Townsend Story, by Political Journalist Norman Barrymaine, a friend of Townsend's. Barrymaine, leaning heavily on unidentified sources, says that the princess is still that way about her old flame, once told him that she "was too deeply in love with him ever to marry anyone else." "My belief," says Barrymaine, without unearthing any new evidence, "is that Princess Margaret would still like to marry Peter Townsend," although "at the moment the religious and political...
...like Ella Fitzgerald. Ella it was who schooled a whole generation of vocalists to phrase and improvise like jazzmen; Ella, too, who popularized scatted lyrics and the word rebop. But Ella has always moved with equal ease through the palm-frond world of popular dance music, and Jazz Impresario Norman Granz set out to prove it by issuing a series of albums on his own Verve label featuring Ella in great pop hits. Latest addition to the series: Ella singing Irving Berlin...