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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stunned, Kaufman tried to explain that he had not been "wittingly antireligious. I was merely speaking out against the use and overuse of this Christmas carol in connection with the sale of commercial products." He soon got impressive religious support: the Rev. Dr. Truman B. Douglass, chairman of the broadcasting and film department of the National Council of Churches, declared that Kaufman's remark was "more expressive of religious sensitiveness than of any spirit of derision." Furthermore, said Dr. Douglass, "the real sacrilege is the merciless repetition of Silent Night and similar Christmas hymns by crooners, hillbillies, dance bands...
Neither does "mass health decline" explain the situation. Says Bock...
...swordersf -The Yeomen of the Guard The puffy old gentlemen in red-breasted tunics who carry halberds up and down the battlements of the Tower of London are, as every U.S. tourist knows well, Yeomen Warders. At the drop of one of their black band box hats, they will explain at length that England's first Tudor king, Henry VII, recruited them in 1485 to serve as his personal bodyguard, and that they earned their proud name in 1669 when the Grand Duke of Tuscany wrote: "They are great eaters of beef . . . They might be called beefeaters." By custom...
What they do not explain is that in modern Britain, Beefeaters have kept their uniforms and little else. They eat as little beef as everyone else in the meatless isles (not more than 23? worth weekly on the ration), and largely confine themselves to guarding the Tower by day, checking files and posing for tourists' photographs. They might be called bureaucrats...
...explain away the half-empty Konzerthaus, the Communists blamed fog, rain and Vienna's lack of taxis, but nothing could conceal the hollowness of the Communist claims to have a peace program, not even the tirade of abuse directed at America. Specimen (by North Korean delegate Madame Kang Yang Sun): U.S. soldiers in Korea knifed out the eyes of Korean children and forced their mothers to eat them, cut open the body of a pregnant woman and extracted the embryo and sliced it before the eyes of the dying mother...