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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roman Catholics. So said the Vatican last week in a report compiled by the Paulist Fathers, who were assigned three years ago to survey Italian Protestantism, much of it ministered by U.S. missionaries. The country's 200,000 Protestants in a population of 48 million were often subject to police harassment and refused permits necessary for Protestant public activities, until last month, when Italy's highest court declared this requirement unconstitutional. The Vatican is far from pleased by such relaxation of the rules, asserts that the Protestants ("this condemned peril") are using "propaganda methods that now find wide...
...revolution has vastly sped bowling's rise from the old alleys in seedy, down-at-the-heel side streets, among pool halls and beer parlors. It has long since nudged into bright new homes, often near the best suburbs. Modern "family bowling centers'" are embellished with cafés, drugstores, beauty parlors, nurseries for the children. As a final embellishment of respectability the Bowling Congress last week was urging all fans to join in a quiet campaign to replace the "alley" and its back-door connotation, with the more genteel word "lane...
Suds & Tears. Playing a lewd, brash burlesque comedian, Sir Laurence often lifted the play-a juvenile soap opera in its triter lines-to the heights of a new Pagliacci. Most critics agreed that Olivier, with real virtuosity and superb support, had disproved the footlight adage that actors can be no better than their material. But Playwright Osborne was not disparaged too severely. Of all theatrical talents, perhaps the uncanniest is an ability to write the sort of humdrum drama that great actors can instinctively exalt. On this bittersweet basis, John Osborne got his share of the applause. But the tears...
...October 1955 he began corresponding with Miss Marianne Moore, whose fragile images, often of animals, e.g., "A brass-green bird with grass-green throat," have won her the respect of the world and a quiverful of literary prizes for three long decades. Last week, in The New Yorker magazine, the Moore-Wallace letters were published for the first time...
...that productivity has never risen at a steady rate. Economists estimate that between 1910 and 1953 there were eleven years when productivity actually fell, e.g., during wartime, productivity declined as the flow of materials and manpower was disrupted. Even in times of boom, as at present, productivity has often fallen; plants operating at top capacity find it hard to raise output...