Word: blight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patronizing vulgarity with which Capra jazzed up the lesson threw a blight on scientific footage that, in itself, was as good as anything of its kind ever televised. Especially effective in color, these sequences showed a pounding human heart, the hearts of a turtle, a rabbit and a bird, and the passage of blood, a corpuscle at a time, through the microphoto-graphed capillaries of live animals. But as the price of admission, the audience had to face a tasteless jangle of gimmicks: a Superman-like "Hemo" to personify blood, dialect comedy, crude mechanical cartoon analogies of circulatory functions ("groceries...
...Blight of Youth...
...week William Buckley Sr. was making plans for his 28 grandchildren. In a circular sent out to Sharon, Lakeville and Salisbury parents who he thought might be interested in going along with him, he announced that next fall he would open a school to train pupils "to resist the blight of Liberalism and Communism they will encounter in almost all elementary schools." The new Buckley school -for students from four to 14-should be one of the more radical educational experiments of the coming year...
...Humanism is as much of a modern blight as atheism, said Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro in an address to Catholic Action in Milan. "The development of humanism-understood as a shifting of history's and life's center from God to man-has become a part of man's mentality, and has grown through the centuries to the point that besides atheism there has grown up an indifference to God, a habit of mind wherein the need of God is not felt in that man feels sufficient unto himself. In this atmosphere God is relegated to the place...
...mechanization of education, and of George Orwell's 1984 atmosphere. As one observer of the Education School's project said, "If this medium is ever used by administrators or their "flunkies" for the purpose of observing and thereby controlling a teacher or his material, it will be a horrible blight on education and freedom of enquiry...