Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...century, said Dr. Wilhelm Pauck, a Congregationalist and professor of church history at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Christianity has suffered serious blows: 1) in terms of influence, it has become a minority movement in the world, and 2) the faithful have deserted organized churches in droves. In short, "Christianity stands at the fringe of the common life today. It no longer shapes it." What happened? According to Dr. Pauck, the fault lies with the churches, which "have refused to demythologize the Gospel . . . They have lost the people because they do not speak to them in their own language...
...liner notes on the new record describe the musician: "A short man growing slightly stocky, bald, Napoleonic. Smokes cigars. Can drink four framboises after dinner with no decline of intellectual focus. Never eats breakfast. Is generous with money. Could organize and run even the French government. Was a choir boy . . . Has nervous blink . . Lives near Paris' Place de la Bastille (in an old building; you expect to find J.J. Rousseau sitting in bed writing when you enter...
That night Lover Boy and his pals continued their short trip to a lost weekend. Next day, none of them was in shape to observe the niceties of small-town life. Frankie wandered into a bar, set them up for the house, then took his own beer outside. By the time he learned that carting drinks from place to place is illegal in Madison, the damage was done. "I teach Sunday School," said one distressed citizen. "There are a lot of Methodists here. What a terrible example that man set for our children...
...called "inflation." But does it? The U.S. could indeed have serious inflation if fiscal irresponsibility at Government levels piled up national debts heavier than the economy can absorb. It might also have inflation if the wage spiral got out of hand, or if capacity to produce fell so far short of demand that prices suddenly shot up by 10% or 20%. It will not have "inflation" by any sensible definition of the word so long as the U.S. can manage its debts and prices rise by 1% or 2% each year, for as economists now know, such gently rising prices...
...disappointment last week was employment. Though July employment rose to 65,179,000, an increase of 198,000 over June, and unemployment fell to 5,294,000, a drop of 143,000 from June, both changes fell short of the normal improvement for this time of the year. Business was certainly speeding up, but there were still areas where part-time operations had to get back on a fulltime basis before furloughed workers could be called back...