Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish to take this opportunity of expressing my objection to the tone of your article concerning Monsignor Ronald Knox's book The Mass in Slow Motion [TIME, Sept. 20]. I have always enjoyed and appreciated the light vein in which you presented our erstwhile serious world affairs, but as a Catholic I wish to affirm that the Mass is a very sacred subject to us, and to hear it alluded to as a "mumble-jumble" is not only disedifying but most revolting...
Reader Talbot's complaint should have been directed to Msgr. Knox. Sample passage from The Mass in Slow Motion: "When there are priests in choir, you know, they are supposed to mumble all this part of the Mass to one another while the priest is getting through it at the altar...
...pressing close to Philadelphia. Every month about 10,000 more people move in, to stay. Now the city was in the midst of another vast and significant change. To its agricultural and mineral wealth it was adding a solid industrial base. It now ranks first in four industries: aircraft, motion pictures oil-well equipment, sportswear manufacture. It is second in two: automobile assembly and tire production...
Since then, he and the Natural Seven have inflicted on the nation Pagan Ninny's Keep 'Er Goin' Stomp (from Violinist Paganini's Perpetual Motion), Moe Zart's Turkey Trot, Cigareetes, Whuskey, and Wild, Wild Women, and such publicity stunts as advertising for an ugly vocalist ("preferably with two heads. Neither must be attractive"). Through it all, Red has been miserable. Now things are going so well, he doubts if he'll ever get out of the band business. Says he: "It's like gumbo in the spring. You just...
...thinks that sound has changed things, and that times are not what they were when the silent King of Kings was made. Said he: "Where you have the actor's voice, the characterization is too concrete. I hate the idea of a real Christ talking in any motion picture. The industry has not yet reached a height where it should take such a step...