Word: blight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gstaad for a surprise reunion with Alexandra and their son, Prince Alexander, 9. Reported a friend who saw their delayed meeting: "They just fell into each other's arms un der the Christmas tree, and they have been like lovers ever since." But there was a small blight on their new-found bliss...
...only around $63,000 v. $900.000 in the U.S. And, says Nagata: "By showing the Japanese countryside in all its beauty, we can attract tourists and more dollars"-as well as stimulate U.S. interest in Japanese houses, furniture, pottery, etc. But the biggest payoff would be political. The worst blight on Japan's movie industry is still the glut of pro-Communist films financed by left-wing unions, the Japanese Communist Party. Red China and Russia (which often buy them for cash in advance). Nagata thinks that if the U.S. market proves profitable, the other major studios would stop...
April 1, 2000 is largely a symposium of Austrian history, art and culture, proving that the country, once having saved the West from the Turks, continued to save it from boredom and spiritual blight. The word "Anschluss" is missing from the historic review. But it is really quite a bit to ask that motion picture history be both entertaining and accurate. In the present case it is fairly amusing...
...those American Roman Catholics who have looked toward Evanston as an opportunity to increase understanding and good will between the various branches of Christendom, Cardinal Stritch's letter will have almost as shattering an effect as Leo XIII's letter on the blight of 'Americanism' had on liberal tendencies in American Roman Catholic circles in the 1890s . . . Dramatic emphasis will be given to the fact that there is a great gulf fixed between the papal church and all other churches. And the world will be told that this gulf yawns wide and deep because...
...Other church members put the case to Bishop Sherrill: this summer the Anglican Congress and the World Council of Churches, meeting in the U.S., would subject the Episcopal Church to especially searching scrutiny by critical Christians from other lands. The slightest appearance of condoning racial segregation would cast a blight on Episcopalianism in their eyes. Without quite calling an international spade a spade, Bishop Sherrill did his best to explain: "I am convinced that on both the international and the national level the scene has altered radically . . . We live in a time of crisis ... I am certain that the witness...