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...shot in Invasion U.S.A. The other battle scenes, about half of the film, look suspiciously like World War II newsreels. The picture ends with another heavy-handed plea for increased defense measures, hammered home by an army recruiting booth in the theater lobby. Although its obvious purpose in to awaken America to the present danger, Invasion U.S.A. has more the effect of a powerful sedative...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: Invasion U.S.A. | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

...When a church is no longer mobile . . . when a challenge to high adventure under God fails to awaken a response in prophetic words and redemptive deeds . . . that church is dead. It is dead even should it be acclaimed as the most venerable institution of which a nation . . . can boast. For a true church must live a pilgrim life upon the road of God's unfolding purpose, keeping close to the rugged boundaries of His ever-expanding kingdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Council Speaks | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

...appears that the present Administration has Mess-merized us into believing that a great giant is waiting to spring upon us from across Europe and the Atlantic. We may soon awaken to find this same giant breathing down the back we have turned on Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 20, 1952 | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...declare the area a national park? ... I admit that this solution would never come to pass, but perhaps the suggestion will awaken even President Vargas to a realization of the folly of destroying what even TIME [Sept. 8] called "one of the world's last great frontiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 22, 1952 | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

...going to speak to the people of Washington ... He will awaken them spiritually in a way that will affect the whole wide world . . . All of these exposures have brought home the need for a spiritual awakening . . . If we had come earlier, it might not have been the time. Now, I am convinced, is the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Crusader in the Capital | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

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