Word: buchmanism
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...been observed that Furie's films are more interesting visually than dramatically, but The Lateyer is disbarred on both counts, except for some early von Sternberg-like playing around with shadow. More concerned with the bedroom than the courtroom, the director and his co-scenarist. Harold Buchman, fill the frames with repeated and lingering flashbacks to the blood-splattered walls and victim, and force-feed the characters into continually exchanging one-liners as if they were Frisbees. Occasionally, Furie shows the Silent Majority homestead in its most ludicrous light (the inquest is held outdoors in a livestock exposition arena...
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...
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...