Word: kit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found wanting-a well-known fact that does the cause of religion no good. Last week the National Council of Churches, on the occasion of a television operetta on ethics, plugged a new idea for attacking this perennial problem. Its good grey flannel name: the Living Right Kit...
...Living Right Kit is a handsome blue and white box containing five filmstrips, five LP recordings and five discussion manuals on five subjects: Right Choice, Right Attitude, Right Counsel, Right Outlook, Right Leadership. The kits were designed for the use of discussion leaders, who are instructed to organize gatherings of laymen, run off the problem-posing filmstrips and the accompanying recordings, then turn up the lights for a discussion of how best to play the often tricky game of weekday life. The discussions, not the kits, are supposed to supply the answers...
East-West tensions tug more severely at brother Kit. When Mama unleashes the marriage brokers to round up a suitable bride for him, Kit balks: "How can I marry a girl I have not even seen? Sleep with her, call her my wife?" But after Premala, a devoted homebody with a sweet disposition, lives with the family for a few months, even Kit can think of no good reason for not marrying...
...city home. In due time she meets Richard again. With India's sun-scorched earth and evergreen-crowned peaks for a backdrop, their illicit love affair is a many-splendored dream. They wake up to the man-made India riven by hate. In a tragedy of errors, Kit and Premala are murdered by nationalist extremists, and as the episode ramifies, Mira and Richard find that not even their love can break through the sociocultural barrier...
Early the next morning, army troops in full battle kit swarmed over Rio. During the night General Lott had opened Envelope No. 4. His bloodless "preventive revolution" was a complete success. Congress named Nereu Ramos, presiding officer of the Senate, as the new Acting President, and voted a state of siege to firm up his government...