Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number that fully satisfy Christian morality is still too small." The Pope warned that "it can only be frightening to think that, through the medium of television, it is possible to introduce into the home the same poison of materialism and hedonism that only too often appears on the screen...
...Neuromuscular television" was the name given by Chicago's Dr. Edmund Jacobson to a gadget for helping heart patients to relax. The tension in a patient's muscles and nerves is projected on a screen so that he can see the effect of his efforts to relax...
Cinemogul Sam Goldwyn got off a letter to Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association of America. The subject vibrated sympathetically on the very purse strings of Goldwyn and his fellow moviemakers: screen censorship...
King of the Khyber Rifles (20th Century-Fox) may be the first CinemaScope production to justify a recent Hollywood wisecrack: "The wider they come the harder they flop." King is a routine Tyrone Power costume adventure set in 1857. Spread out on the enormous CinemaScope screen, it forces the actors to shout love at each other about as intimately as opponents on a tennis court, and the audience gets a neck ache following the conversational ball...
...community was, as Governor Pyle termed it, "a lawless, commercial, undertaking dominated by a half-dozen greedy and licensed men who used religion as screen for systematic 'white slavery' and economic exploitation," it was a screne and prosperous enterprise. A visitor to Short Creek before the great raid would have found it much like any other American town, a little more prosperous than most, perhaps, because its Mormon principle of pooling cattle and grain left no one hungry...