Word: object
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Critics of suburban religion, says Odiorne, are really attacking the suburbs, not just their churches. "The conformity which characterizes suburban life is the real object of their derision. They would have suburbia turn its back on this 'other directedness' and arrive at individual commitment through an atomistic thinking-through or insight." But "the very suburban mind which is looked at with fear by the detractors may well be the basis for a beginning of a new Christian era." Perhaps it is because the critics of suburban religion "lack insight into the nature of modern society and the group...
...tracing its hero's rise from beer-delivery boy to the threshold of greatness, the film applies whitewash so thickly that the coated object loses all shape. About the only big event in Presley's real life not touched upon by Loving You is his invasion of Hollywood. This is understandable. To be true to its own brand of ballyhoo, the film would have to show Elvis-modest and shy fellow that he is-rejecting all offers to lend himself to Hollywood commercialism...
...Christmas Eve party ("Ah doan think it's fai-yuh fo' the Social Hostiss ta hafta plan meals fo' eight reindeer"), the Dennis-Erskine team burns its screwy pleasure palace right down to the ground, but not before a nice boy meets a nice girl there-object, simple matrimony...
Colliding Galaxies. One of the most interesting problems for the telescope is the thousands of "radio stars": small patches of the sky that are sources of powerful Yadio waves but which seldom correspond with any object visible to optical telescopes. A clue to what these mysterious "stars" may be was given by the discovery about two years ago that the second strongest of them shows in the Palomar Mountain 200-inch optical telescope as a pair of galaxies, apparently in collision, hundreds of millions of light-years away. The new telescope men will attempt to show that fainter radio stars...
...earth is a minor, insignificant planet in the vast universe, but it is important to its inhabitants, and it is an inconvenient object for them to study. It is too big to be observed from one or a few places. Its surface is covered with rapidly moving fluids. Its atmosphere swirls with big and little storms. Its oceans are stirred by currents. Its solid crust shakes like jelly, and its plastic interior probably flows slowly in largely unknown ways. Influence? from the sun and beyond the sun affect the passive earth. Cosmic rays from the depths of space beat upon...