Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resistance men painted walls and fron tierbarriers with the slogan: Deutsche nicht Erwünscht! (Germans not wanted), a variation of the Jews-not-wanted signs in Nazi days. This week the Dutch Tourist Bureau was complaining that it needs more money to make more propaganda to attract more Germans...
...Gloucestershire clergyman and blessed with a private income, Ralph Vaughan Williams was never a man in a hurry. Not until his 35th year, when his Walt Whitman cantata Toward the Unknown Region was performed (1907), did he attract any real attention; by then he was already six years a Mus.D. from Cambridge. He wrote his first ballet (Old King Cole] at 51, his first film score (49th Parallel) at 68. Ever eager to try his hand at something new, he surprised Harmonica Virtuoso Larry Adler with a Romance for Harmonica with orchestral accompaniment. By then Composer Williams...
Gill also believes that the denominational seminaries are not getting the intellectual support they should have. "The big ecumenical seminaries-Harvard, Yale, Union, and the University of Chicago-have regularly conducted raids on the faculties of the denominational seminaries. They have been able to attract 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...
...fact, far more practical problems than these-extending to monolithic leadership, if not dictatorship-beset the Jungians. To the true believers among them, it has never mattered that Dr. Jung and his work failed to attract a worldwide following as numerous as Freud's. (They regard the Freudians as proselyters, and proselyting as a reflection of unconscious insecurity.) But they have been so unquestioning in their acknowledgment of Jung's leadership that no one of them is emerging as a possible head man to succeed him. That a successor may soon be needed was clear last week. Carl...
...fill the additional 40 billion seat-miles that the speed and greater capacity of the new jets will make available by 1962. The report's conclusion: The airlines will not be able to unless they get busy right away researching new markets and developing special programs to attract new passengers. The Government can lend a hand in assisting traffic growth, said the report, by repealing the transportation tax and turning over to commercial carriers more of the passenger and cargo traffic now carried by the Military Air Transport Service...