Word: onwardness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time, Santayana judged it no more charitably than he had judged persons and places: "The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably . . . The peculiar malady of my times . . . was . . . vacant freedom and indeterminate progress: Vorwärts! Avanti! Onward! Full speed ahead! without asking whether directly before you was not a bottomless...
...warfare. Aimed as it is at people who hate us for out autos and out skyscrapers, it can gain only envy if it pursues this tactic. In its attempts to spawn anti-Communism, psychological warfare tackles a most difficult enigma in human relations: conversion. and converters, from St. Paul onward, could testify that their job is hopeless unless they can tie their doctrine to ideas of those they influence. Catholic missionaries in China paint their cherubs with yellow skins, Communist propaganda plays on Asian love of independence...
...East 30th Street. Manhattan, that was once the Adams Memorial Presbyterian Church. The stained-glass windows are bricked up, the pews are gone, and in place of the organ there is a glass-fronted control room which bristles with switches, plugs and dials. Instead of such rousing hymns as Onward! Christian Soldiers and Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus, the old building resounded this week to the throb of a popular-music combo. And near the spot where a vested minister once stood at sermon time, a perky blonde in her stocking feet poised herself before a microphone and sang...
...This is the hope that beckons us onward in this century of trial. This is the work that awaits us all, to be done with bravery, with charity-and with prayer to Almighty...
...Upward & Onward. At a special meeting last week, Cage plumped for still more expansion. Said he to his stockholders: "Folks, when you buy a hog, you don't starve him. You fatten him up. It's the same with this company. We've got to fatten this hog. We've got to fatten this company." The union capitalists promptly approved his plan to buy or set up union-owned insurance companies in most of the 48 states and to build a $1,000,000, five-story office building in downtown Dallas. Cage knows there...