Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slogan 'like "Give Chicago a House of Prayer" is conceived and printed along with other sales talk on a beribboned, dignified pamphlet, promising heavenly & earthly rewards. (Some of the earthly ones: getting one's, name inscribed in a "golden book," on a hospital plaque, or in a stained-glass window.) At last the volunteer committees hold a "kickoff luncheon." A pamphlet is snuggled under every napkin, and the drive is launched...
...GOLDEN ROOMS-Vardis Fisher-Vanguard...
With such a wealth of engaging material; Sing Out, Sweet Land! had a golden opportunity that it largely muffs. For its music fails to vibrate, to express dramatically or even evoke nostalgically the picturesque American life it was part of. Instead of trying to get as close to history as it can in the way of frontier lustiness, sectional color and period sentiment, Sing Out, Sweet Land! burlesques a good deal of the past, and emasculates a good deal more...
Among those read were, "Spring and Fall," "Felix Randall," "The Leaden Echo and Golden Echo," "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of Resurrection," "The Windhover," and three sonnets...
Inching Along. The stolid American Medical Association, although still unconvinced, has finally given up its golden dream of preserving the status quo. It has even managed to swallow two pills: 1) some forms of group practice (like the Mayo Clinic), 2) voluntary group medical insurance (such as many big corporations now sponsor for their employes). But the A.M.A. has always opposed a combination of the two, in which the insured group hires a group of doctors to take care of its members...