Word: lukewarm
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Fists & Gasps. Visitor Fradier divides U.S. religion into the "hots" and the "lukewarms." The "lukewarm" services, he says, consist of "hymns sung to military marches composed by fierce Scots," or, for contrast, bucolic Bavarian waltzes. The form of the sermon, he says, never varies. "The [minister] leans on the pulpit and begins in a low voice, indistinct, sleepy. Slowly he becomes animated. He slips a hand in a pocket and tells an anecdote, two, three anecdotes, until the audience consents to smile a little. Then his tone warms up, the face of the orator turns purple, his voice becomes husky...
...lost it. "That ticket is a good deal," said the private. "That's not for mess hall crud, that's for real food." I thanked him, put on my tie, turned in my forms, and went down to the cafeteria. Ninety cents at the Army Base buys coffee, a lukewarm turkey sandwich, and some chemically yellow lemon meringnopic...
...Expensing the Excess." If Snyder was a lukewarm advocate, several onetime New Dealers were passionately opposed to the tax. Ex-OPA Boss Leon Henderson, now a businessman's consultant, termed the tax "a built-in barrier to new investment." War profits, said Henderson, should be kept down by constantly renegotiating military contracts. He insisted that World War II's excess profits tax had not caught profiteers: "Only one out of every six corporations that earned any income paid an excess profits tax . . . No statistician will ever figure out how many corporations escaped E.P.T. by the simple device...
...suggested that they get right to work turning out sets that, at least, could pick up CBS color telecasts in black & white. As a prod for the reluctant manufacturers, who are having trouble making enough sets for the current market, FCC hinted that if the manufacturers' response is lukewarm it might make a final decision in favor of CBS next month...
...Wrote the Rev. Roy I. Bohanan of New London, Conn.: "Print more . . . Let's have a story on the Bartenders' Christian Fellowship, or the revelation of a" Prostitutes' Christian Association . . . but not into Christian homes." Sighed Kenneth D. Barney of Scott City, Kans.: "The wishy-washy, lukewarm professed believers who insist movies are not wrong for Christians will now have a new argument." Henry Pucek of St. Louis, Mo. pointed to a recent magazine picture of Jane Russell in an "unChristian pose," and asked: "Is this the priesthood which Miss Russell feels that God has called...