Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many of the prima donnas in American theology -the men of academic glamour." As a result, many denominational seminaries feel "that they ought to focus down on the education of ministers and pastors, and leave the training of scholars to others. This is the mood that rang all the alarm bells...
...spite of being the world's most progressively educated orphan, Patrick is a little stuffy, and he watches his manic aunt's antics with considerable unease. Mame, rich, beautiful and pushing 40 (determinedly ahead of her, with a 10-ft. pole), gives him good reason for alarm. In Paris she flutteres her feathers across the stage of the Folies-Bergere. In the south of France she becomes romantically involved with a Mediterranean matron-menace named Amadeo Armadillo, and in the Tyrol with an obnoxiously handsome Nazi named Putzi. In London Lady Gravell-Pitt, a flatulent and fraudulent...
...establishment of a set of ground rules that would restrict political change in the Middle East to orderly, nonviolent channels. In essence, what Dag Hammarskjold was proposing was acceptance of such a set of rules and the establishment of a kind of U.N. trip wire to sound the alarm whenever anyone showed a disposition to violate them...
...moving with the times," declared the sedate British Broadcasting Corp. as last week it relaxed the rule that TV announcers must dress in dinner jackets on nighttime shows. The new, unstuffed-shirt policy brought cries of alarm from John Taylor, editor of Tailor and Cutter, bible of the British needle trades. A BBC man in a business suit is a desecration, complained Taylor. "The BBC should continue to set an example by doing the right thing visually." But Announcer Michael Aspel put the matter in a different light. "There used to be a communal dinner jacket which we just passed...
When commercial TV was introduced in Britain four years ago, it was widely regarded as a transient evil from abroad and no cause for real alarm. Today a host of ecstatic advertisers attest that commercial television has come to the Isles to stay. Six companies now produce programs for the commercial channel in competition with the rigorously noncommercial BBC. One of the two leaders, Associated Television Ltd., announced last week that it had made ?4,100,000 ($11.5 million) in its 1957-58 fiscal year-almost ten times its previous year's profit...