Word: communionism
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Confidence & Command. It is a type of human endeavor that calls for a soul well stiffened with ego. It calls for poise, concentration, vitality and, above all, for a kind of instinctive communion with the camera that comes partly from inner fiber, partly from vicissitude and long practice. Few possess these attributes in such full measure as that seamy, balding and corrosively sardonic old professional, Humphrey DeForest Bogart, soon to be seen as Captain Queeg in Stanley Kramer's heralded Technicolor version of The Caine Mutiny...
...down hard on "modernists," who meant to water down the traditional faith of the church to make it conform to prevailing scientific and rationalist concepts. He left his mark on modern liturgy by stimulating a return to Gregorian chant. He deeply influenced contemporary Catholic life by calling for frequent communion and for the early communion of children, by developing the laymen's movement known as Catholic Action...
...public taste. Says he: "Actually, your radio and TV audience is never bigger than five or six people. So what it amounts to is a visit to people's homes. And those people must want you to come back and visit them every week. There must be a communion." Explains Linkletter, who developed the People Are Funny show with Guedel: "We don't just get the people up there to make fools of them. We play on their emotions and try out their judgment. Gradually, through the years, we've concentrated on people's character traits...
...Jacinto Day celebration on April 21. In Manhattan this week, the Senator, recovering from laryngitis and a virus bug, got back in voice to describe the nation's Red peril to Francis Cardinal Spellman, who, with about 6,000 New York City cops, roundly applauded McCarthy at a communion breakfast. "You said it, Joe!" shouted the cops. "Keep giving it to them...
Priests should particularly ask themselves, the Pontiff wrote, how many of their parishioners are practicing Roman Catholics. "True, all believe more or less after a fashion," he went on. "Very many have been baptized and have made their first Communion also; they have been married in the Church and they want to have, in God's good time, the last sacraments and a Church burial. But it is undeniable that outside a group, more or less numerous, of fervent Catholics, you have the simply well-disposed, the indifferent and even the hostile...