Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should a man 29 years of age be called when his neighbor of the same age and perhaps a competitor in business is not called? Both should have been trained when they were youngsters and called if and when needed with their yearly class. There was ample time to have trained at least one class and that would have given us all the men we needed and more...
...Brennan, the village postman, is required to make middle-aged puppy love to Miss Broderick, Benchley's housekeeper. Deanna, a little more mature, a little more cosmeticized with a brand-new pair of arched eyebrows, is mainly occupied with trying to catch the eye of her next-door neighbor (toothy Robert Stack), who seems more interested in his automobile...
...changing banks of the Rio Grande-but not enough to wash the word chamizal from long Mexican memories. In Mexico City's Chamber of Deputies last week Deputy Professor (of the National University) José Betancourt Pérez rose to spout: "Mexico cannot believe in the Good Neighbor policy if the United States does not comply with its obligations in the Chamizal case...
...Director Mary van Kleeck of the Russell Sage Foundation's Department of Industrial Studies. Said she: "What does Christianity require of Britain and the United States in their jointly assumed responsibility for world affairs today? The answer may at once be given in simplest terms, Love thy Neighbor as thyself. . . . We are Christians just to the extent that we assume responsibility to aid in lifting out of poverty and insecurity those millions, not only in our own nation, but in all countries with which our nation has economic relations. For Britain and the United States together, this means...
...Picture has many excellent, many not so excellent details, and will doubtless accent for millions the virtues of neighborly compassion. Fundamentally there is just one thing wrong with it. When an organist draws on the full resources of his instrument, as have Messrs. Capra & Riskin in invoking almost every great emotional appeal from the Nativity to The Star Spangled Banner, the largest possible music had better come out. Anything else may topple artistically from sheer pompous top-heaviness. When Capra-Riskin open up the cinema organ in Meet John Doe, what comes out is not solid but uncertain musical structure...