Word: hammerism
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...church breaches that hallowed barrier between the forces of salvation and the forces of law and order, hammer blows are heard from the other side. Over there, things are getting very difficult, and it is well-settled that the priest is sometimes more effective than the soldier in holding the fort. And now we have those two new soul brothers, President Richard Nixon and Reverend Billy Graham...
...some hope for it. Written in 1948, it starts with a few well chosen and bitter words about Hiroshima and the atom bomb. It soon becomes evident, though, that even if Shaw's sense of outrage grew fierce in his old age, he never learned to temper his sledge hammer blows. The polemical tone of the play, which lectures the audience as if they were mad war mongers with the intelligence of six year olds, is both offensive and unpolished. Thus Fables, which had more promise than the other two works, ends up the biggest disaster of the three...
Between the time the hammer hits the thumb and the brain signals the bad news, there is an instant when the victim is at peace with the absurdity of the situation. Mrs. Wallop prolongs that moment of truce longer and more cleverly than most of Peter De Vries' previous eleven novels...
...Hammer Blows. To call attention to its antipollution efforts, Armco Steel ran an ad showing its Ashland, Ky., plant under sootless blue skies. The headline: "Imagine a steel company giving up smoking. Imagine Armco." Potlatch Forests, Inc., a lumber company, has ads with scenes of forests and wildlife. One shows a sparkling, pine-flanked waterway over the headline: "It cost us a bundle, but the Clearwater River still runs clear." The message: Potlatch installed a filter plant to remove wood and bark deposited in the river by its Idaho logging operations...
Charges that phosphates in detergents ultimately kill wildlife in streams and lakes have opened new opportunities for Arm & Hammer washing soda. Ads note that it is phosphate-free and, when added to ordinary soaps like Lux or Ivory, can transform them into heavy-duty cleaners. In the interests of "helping save our nation's waters," the ad lists nine detergents with high phosphate contents and advises housewives to switch away from them-in favor of Arm & Hammer and soaps...