Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other generations of Protestants the idea might have smacked of popery or unhealthy mysticism. The withdrawal of small groups for meditation, prayer and spiritual study used to be a distinctive practice of other religions, notably Roman Catholicism and Buddhism. Today, Protestant retreat houses are multiplying. Retreats range from one-day spiritual refreshers to week-long programs modeled on a monastic rule...
Backed by the American Jewish Congress and the New York Board of Rabbis, some citizens denounced the whole idea as a violation of the separation of church and state. Others maintained that the interdenominational version was really a "new religion" and hence offensive to all faiths. One lawyer argued that the proposal was a plot to 1) introduce religion into the public schools, 2) equate them with parochial schools, 3) thus open the door to public support for private schools. Finally the case reached the office of New York's State Commissioner of Education James E. Allen...
...Durkee Jr. chose to tread the simpler level of the story-the interplay between a clod husband, a deceitful lodger, and a restive wife who dreams of escape from the back stoop of life. Ironically, the portraits seemed to fall out of television focus when wisps of Odets ideas slipped in. Actor E. G. Marshall was brilliant as the cuckolded husband who yearned for ''a little warm house in the snow where you were told what to do, like in school." Actress Kim Stanley, in another excellent performance, was the adulterous wife who talked about the supreme confidence...
...best new twist along the radio dial is bringing listeners in growing numbers to little (5,000 watts) WPAT in Paterson, N.J., and making it one of the most popular stations in the New York metropolitan area. The station's simple yet radical idea: spare the listener the sound of the human voice, except at decent intervals, i.e., no oftener than every 15 minutes through the day and every half-hour in the evening. In between. WPAT. plays carefully chosen, well-groomed music, mostly the massed strings and muted brass of the Mantovani-Kostelanetz style, nothing more popular than...
...Idea Man. In Buffalo, Michael P. Gorman, who was bothered, along with other mail handlers, by exhaust fumes from post-office delivery trucks at a loading platform, won a certificate of merit and $12.50 for his suggested solution: turn off the motors...