Word: sheen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blasphemous one man's opinion. There would certainly be an uproar if non-Catholics protested to Bishop Sheen's being on TV just because he reaches into the homes of thousands of Protestants. This was certainly a non-Christian attitude on the Rev. John E. Kelly's part, and possibly it is for this reason that so many "fairly well instructed Catholics may be 'deceived'"-or as I would say "converted...
There has long been wide agreement among newspapermen that a reporter who dabbles in politics tarnishes his sheen as a reporter (see below). But on the broader question of a newsman's obligations as a citizen, there has never been unanimity. Can a newsman take part in community affairs without compromising his position as a public critic...
...Winston cigarette pitch (they "taste good like a cigarette should'') has effectively assassinated the conjunction as. The singing commercial has popularized so many defective rhymes (gleam with sheen, time with fine, gasoline with supreme] that Fadiman fears the blunting of the simple capacity to match the sound of one word with another. Other commercials tell "how to use eyebrow pencil so it looks natural" or implore the viewer to "have a Camel. They really...
...dealing exclusively with errant husbands, expectant wives and unwed mothers, it is essential that there be a light touch that leaves no smudge, a swift skating tempo that outrides thin ice. The Tunnel of Love gives even its brightest remarks the neon lighting of the wisecrack instead of the sheen of wit; it makes its stork deliveries not swoops from the housetops but road-rumbling, door-banging trips by United Parcel...
...Likeliest U.S. appointments: Boston's Archbishop Richard Cushing, Manhattan's (and TV's) Auxiliary Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, National Director of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith...