Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brushing aside Freud's dictum as a matter of semantics and logic-chopping, Academy President Kenneth Ellmaker Appel. a Philadelphia psychiatrist, set the tone for the academy's work: "A hundred million Americans [the estimated enrollment in churches] can't be wrong. Church membership is helping people to live more worthwhile and satisfying lives."* Mental health, he said, is inseparably intertwined with questions of moral values, as well as with feelings of guilt, anxiety and insecurity. Said Executive Director George C. Anderson, associate chaplain at Manhattan's St. Luke's Hospital: "The 325,000 clergymen...
...Reverse Switch. The Falstaff Brewing Corp. of St. Louis got into trouble late last year, after it bought for one of its Negro salesmen a $500 life membership in the N.A.A.C.P. on the theory that it would help him in his dealings with Negro customers. The White Sentinel, a sewer sheet published in St. Louis by John Hamilton, an ex-Communist, printed a photograph of Falstaff's Vice President Karl Vollmer handing the check to an N.A.A.C.P. official. Squawked the White Sentinel: "When you drink Falstaff beer, you are aiding the integration and mongrelization of America." White Sentinel copies...
Statistically, Dunster is much like any other House. It has a somewhat smaller membership--about 375--but like the others, it has TV, laundry facilities, dances, language tables, and resident tutors. It does have a distinct physical disadvantage; whatever people may say about Dunster being closer to Lamont than Eliot, it's still a long way to Harvard Hall on an icy morning...
This restriction on membership is necessary if the group is to meet the requirements of the Civil Aeronautics Board for chartering a plane...
...elucidated the oft-small but decisive difference between unprincipled expediency and principled pragmatism. The order has suffered reverses and reprisals. In 1773, under political pressure from the courts of Spain, Portugal, Naples and France, Pope Clement XIV suppressed the order, and in the next 40 years it dwindled in membership from 23,000 to 600. During that time, when many Jesuits sought peace in the new U.S., John Adams warned Thomas Jefferson against them: "If ever there was a body of men who merited eternal damnation on earth and in hell, it is this Society of Loyola's. Nevertheless...