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Hammond's Baptists, hard-shell fundamentalist, use liberal doses of Barnumism that would make less exuberant Christians blush. A "battle" between two competing bus teams, spurred on by bands and flags, rocketed attendance last March 16 to a record 30,560. This fall's attendance drive has featured a man on stilts inviting squealing moppets into the church, free goldfish, and ice cream sundaes for sixth-graders. Past bait has included zoo trips, picnics, even horseback rides...
More Money. Recent polls show a marked rise in consumer confidence, and because he has both new optimism and more money, the consumer is beginning to spend strongly. One consequence is that even the two sickest major industries-autos and housing-are reflecting the first faint blush of recovery. Housing starts rose 14% from April to May. Auto sales climbed 5% from the first three weeks in May to the equivalent period in June, though they usually decline during that span...
...gushily sentimental, fatuous, vulgar, idiotic, by advocating dressing up in colonial attire, getting sloppy guzzling old colonial grog in reconstructed 1776-style inns, rapturizing over the usual glamour figures and their myths. Even Jefferson on your cover would blush in his reluctance to be so glamorized...
...Lolita, Humbert observed, "You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style"). Marshfield rattles off alliterations as if he were on death row. He describes a local nursery "which piously kept its Puerto Rican peony-pluckers in a state of purposeful peonage." With nary a blush he writes of returning home to the "fusty forgiveness of my fanlighted foyer." His frequent dissections of sex and theology revolve around a central question: How many matrons can dance on the head of a pun? "More power to the peephole!" the Rev. Marshfield exults after describing a session of spying...
...independence ceremony could not keep the blush of April's revolution, when carnations had seemed to sprout from every buttonhole, from fading. The other promises of the revolution-like an end to economic stagnation and establishment of a democratic government after a half-century of dictatorship-have not begun to be realized...