Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came. In the thronged square, Social Democratic Leader Ernst Spars climbed on to a platform. He pointed to the overcast skies which had for two weeks been filled with the roar of U.S. planes carrying food to besieged Berlin. "Up there," cried Spars, "the American people are showing their faith in the cause of our Berlin brothers every hour of every day. Yet we-their fellow countrymen-have done nothing. Now we must act! There is not much food for us here in Melsungen, but let us share with those brave Berliners what little we have...
...common form of aggressive secularism ... is the tendency to make the institutions and assumptions of American democracy into a religious faith or into a substitute for religious faith . . . So, gradually we may find ourselves a nation in which the conviction-forming agencies of all sorts which are aided by the State will count against rather than for religious faith. That would be the opposite of the intention of many who have contributed to the result, including those Protestants who fail to discern the full meaning of the current interpretation of the Constitution...
Conversion by Mail. One of the experts quoted is the famed mail-order priest, Father Lester J. Fallon, whose correspondence courses of instruction in the Roman Catholic faith signed up 38,000 servicemen during the war. Father Fallon, who calls his technique "Getting Them Up on the Rectory Porch," points out that many a potential convert is embarrassed at approaching a priest, and would rather read about Catholicism at home before ringing the rectory doorbell. Paid advertising in newspapers and magazines is the best method of reaching such prospects, says Father Fallon...
...Effective convert-making requires systematic action," writes Jesuit Father John E. Odou, in explaining the organization called Convert Makers of America, of which he is director. Founded in 1944 to enlist the Catholic laity in proselytizing for their faith, the C.M.O.A. requires of its members that they correspond once a week with a priest-adviser on the problems and progress of their convert-making. "Trains, hotels, depots, beauty parlors are all crowded with potential converts," writes Father Odou. "That is why the slogan used by every C.M.O.A. is: 'Never let an opportunity slip...
...picture opens with a long musical sequence which introduces the characters, starts the story rolling and seems to foreshadow much more fun than Summer Holiday ever delivers. After this solid beginning, Mamoulian (or his bosses) lost faith in the idea of telling their story with music. Songs appear infrequently, and when they do (e.g., Stanley Steamer, a sequence about the joys of primitive motoring), the tunes are strident and too tricky for the story's gentle flutterings over adolescent rebellion...