Word: mass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pakistan's General Mohammed Ayub Khan. No leader of the pro-Western Asiatic nations has a mass following equal to that of our President...
Wellesley Hills, Mass...
...Mexico. Freedman's complaint, published in the Phi Beta Kappa American Scholar: nonconformism is getting to be more orthodox than conformism, especially among intellectuals in college communities and in the publishing, advertising and entertainment professions. "The nonconformists are right," says Freedman, when they accuse the majority of mass thinking and responses. "Yet it may easily be shown that the self-elected nonconformists are culpable on every count on which they attack conformists...
...missionaries in Mindouli, 100 miles west of Brazzaville, Youlou started his career as a simple parish priest. But he had always had a penchant for politics. Over the protests of his archbishop, he decided to run for the French National Assembly. He was forbidden by his archbishop to say Mass, though he still wears black or white cassocks, topped by a Homburg. He lost the election, but while his opponent went off to Paris, the abbé's admirers refused to believe that he had lost, and took their problems to him as if he were their actual Deputy...
Hope. Critic Marty sees hope in the local parish, with its possibilities of maintaining the values of personality against mass society. "If the parish can be relieved of many pressures which it cannot sustain, it offers the most hopeful front for taking post-Protestant America and helping shape it as newly Christian America. It must be informed from the theological centers as it is not at present. As denominations and parishes 'take upon themselves the form of the servant' and . . . sacrificial living ... we shall see the liberation of God, the repersonalization of man, the judgment of a proud...