Word: sings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kisco, N.Y., given to the movement in 1950 by Mrs. John Henry Hammond of the Vanderbilt and Sloane families (New York Times 1-5-50). There are also reports of numerous donations of over $100,000 (Tom Driberg, The Mystery of Moral Re-Armament). It seems ironic that the Sing-Out Kids say in the MRA Songbook: "We gave up cars, scholarships, jobs; we poured out our own earnings and savings...
What do the Sing-Out Kids know about all this? Not much. Ask them a question and they quote the answer verbatim from the MRA handbook. Even the leaders like Sayre do that. Most of the handbook was written by Howard, and it is gospel even though his answers are often incredible non-sequiturs. But the Kids study it and repeat it. The answers are right there and there is no use thinking about...
...Sing-Out is to help you catch on. First, Frank Buchman, the founder, and Howard tried lectures and books. That was in the 1930's. Then there were plays and movies. They had appeal, but it was limited. Howard thought up Sing-Out in 1965 and all of a sudden MRA caught on. The success was sensational. In just a year and a half, the three national troupes and the numerous foreign troupes have sung before two million people all over the world: South and Central America, Africa, Japan and Korea, and throughout Europe. They have been at 84 military...
Their appeal is strictly emotional. A successful Sing-Out creates an hysterical atmosphere where rationality is lost to powerful feelings of patriotism and goodness in the catchy rock beat of the songs. But you get the message, All about motherhood and chauvinism and the evils of the sex and drink. You get the message. And wealthy businessmen in the fervor of it all dash off $500 checks, and high school and college kids run over to sign up, to be Sign-Out people themselves and solve the problems of the world by spreading the Word...
...Sing-Out Kids there are other appeals. Many of the boys enjoy the 2-A draft deferments for being in an occupation in the national interest. The decision is made by local draft boards. Some boards classify boys 1-A, and, according to Sayre, 45 of the 300 or so males in the troupes have been drafted...