Word: seetings
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...rest of the picture. The principals are thus left free to develop an interesting and often humorous plot. Dealing with the life of a wounded badman recuperating in a Quaker family, the script is both clever and tasteful. The writers manage to convey the beliefs of that seet with all the necessary finesse and still draw the comedy of ardent pacifists playing hosts to a befuddled rustler. While the action follows through to the hoped-for conclusion, the climax happily avoids time-worn convention. John Wayne's choice between the security of his gun and beautiful Gail Russell comes over...
...national periodical proclaiming the completion of a long-sought-for theological union of two Protestant sects, it is hailed as a sign of the times: the beginnings of a great post-war religious revival and consolidation. Just as often, though not so well publicized an occurrence, new seets are breaking off from old ones. A part of the congregation of a Holy Roller church in a southern community may disagree with the majority on some such issue as the permissibility of smoking and a new seet is born, perhaps under the name Holy Jumpers or Holy Scramblers...
Though it is only one of many attempts at religious cooperation and is primarily limited to the inter-Protestant sphere, the Massachusetts Council of Churches may serve to illustrate the modern trend. Almost all of the Protestant seets which do not belong to some other similar seet are members. The Council is part of a much larger Federal Council, and is itself the unofficial headquarters for several smaller municipal organizations. Although extensive, its fields of activity are primarily social. It appoints chaplains to state institutions, coordinates social and clerical work, forms and publishes opinions on current legislation and provides religious...
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