Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign against wife-beating. Hearstlings in each of 13 cities sprang to their files of politicians, Legionnaires, churchmen and clubwomen who can always be counted on to say the right thing. They were asked if they liked "filthy books." They didn't. Neither did such writers as Faith Baldwin (Men Are Such Fools') and Clarence Buddington Kelland (The Little Moment of Happiness), whose opinions were splashed across Page One. Next came front-page editorials demanding that erring novelists and their publishers of "best-smellers" be brought to law. Only Edmund Wilson's Memoirs of Hecate County...
...proselyting? For one, by offering good music to attract the listener and to create a mood receptive to the subsequent religious message. This is the conclusion drawn by Scripter William C. Smith from audience reaction to his two Catholic network shows, The Catholic Hour and The Hour of Faith. His conclusion and what lies behind it are set down in The Priest, a monthly published for the clergy by straitlaced, conversion-minded Bishop John Francis Noll of Fort Wayne, Ind. Some of Smith's points...
...talking about Good Night, Sweet Jesus. But the purpose of all these choirs. . . is deeper than merely to provide entertainment or an emotional experience. The real purpose is to prepare the listener and. . . to soften him up for the talks featured on The Catholic Hour and The Hour of Faith...
...doubt there was a certain amount of holy innocence in Dr. Newton's appraisal of Communism in practice. No doubt the Soviet Government was far more worldly and realistic. But the fact of being a Christian implies a faith that in the end all mankind, including Russia, must be pervaded by religious belief. It was just possible that in adding to their list of religious well-wishers, the hardheaded commissars were inviting the innocence of doves to triumph over the wisdom of serpents...
...didn't know this. Willie thought the Lord was calling him to save the state and so did his wife, Lucy, who had been a schoolteacher and didn't favor drinking. Willie was pure and believed in his backers. He believed in the people, who repaid his faith by dozing through his well-reasoned speeches. Then Willie found out that he had been a sap and a sucker...