Word: stress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Voice broadcasts sermons, interviews with clergymen, recordings of church services and religious music, religious news from the U.S. and talks on the spiritual principles underlying U.S. democracy. Where the audience is predominantly nonChristian, broadcasts stress cultural, moral and philosophical values...
...conservatives stress faith rather than reason in government. The wrong way to them is that of the rational liberal, "only on the road to a worse hell that fascism, communism, or materialism--soft-headed Utopianisre...
Those who judge Botteghe by its contributions in English will find a mixed bag. Poet-Novelist Robert Graves (I, Claudius, Sergeant Lamb's America) leads off with The Devil Is a Protestant, a mildly humorous essay contrasting the austerities of Protestant worship and Roman Catholicism's stress on rich symbolisms. Any Graves fan can see that a talented righthander has been giving his left hand a workout. But there are well-written, offbeat stories by such U.S. writers as Alfred Chester and Elizabeth Hardwick that few magazines would try out on their readers. The princess thought they were...
Asians would still like to look upon America as the defender of freedom, Sundaram said. "India particularly has taken so much in the way of ideology from America that it is unlikely to abandon America unless America in turn abandons this ideology." The stress in U.S.-Asian relations is the feeling of many Asians that this ideology of freedom is in large part being abandoned in this country, Sundaram added...
Some felt the emphasis was misplaced. They said the honor system is an individual matter and should stress personal honor, rather than the reporting of others...