Word: buchman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sing-Out is to help you catch on. First, Frank Buchman, the founder, and Howard tried lectures and books. That was in the 1930's. Then there were plays and movies. They had appeal, but it was limited. Howard thought up Sing-Out in 1965 and all of a sudden MRA caught on. The success was sensational. In just a year and a half, the three national troupes and the numerous foreign troupes have sung before two million people all over the world: South and Central America, Africa, Japan and Korea, and throughout Europe. They have been at 84 military...
...life, men, sexual fulfillment and social betterment in the turbulent years between commencement day and the beginning of World War II. The film omits some of the minor evidence against them and succeeds as a suds opera far superior to the ordinary household brand. Sharply written by Scenarist Sidney Buchman, it is directed with lively, Roosevelt-period flavor by Sidney Lumet and played with giddy, gossipy, delicious girlishness by a group of captivating young actresses who rediscover the '30s like Junior Leaguers unleashed at an antiques fair...
...M.R.A. meeting intending to ridicule the idea, was so taken with it that he ever after devoted his energies and the profits (some $1,120,000) from twelve moral-re-arming books and 16 plays to the movement, eventually becoming its leader after the death of Founder Frank Buchman in 1961; of pneumonia; in Lima, Peru...
From Rugby to Royalties. Moral Re-Armer Howard could hardly be more unlike Buchman, who was a mild-mannered rural pastor and Y.M.C.A. worker until he founded the Oxford Group. M.R.A.'s predecessor. Lean, trim and handsome at 56, Howard was in his day one of Oxford's athletic greats, eight times a star on Britain's international rugby team. In 1941, as the best-known and most biting political columnist in Lord Beaverbrook's stable, he was assigned to write some pieces about M.R.A. and ended up joining it. He owns and operates a model...
Since World War II, M.R.A. has offered itself to the world as an ideology for the West. Howard insists that the movement adheres faithfully to Buchman's grand strategy-converting the world's leaders to living by the four absolutes. The movement no longer flaunts the easily refuted claims of a decade ago that labor union converts had brought industrial peace to strife-ridden cities. And M.R.A. these days soft-pedals endorsements from African leaders maintaining that the movement has saved the continent from chaos...