Word: trends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles, 905 voting "commissioners" of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (northern) turned out for its 167th General Assembly, representing 2,658,903 members and 256 presbyteries. Without a dissenting voice, the delegates approved a statement of the church's Permanent Commission deploring the Roman Catholic "trend to exalt the figure of the Virgin Mother to the office of associate partner in the work of redemption." This development, said the statement, "has widened the breach between the Roman Catholic Church and all other Christian communions...
...neither is the outlook for TV cooks. Last week Boston, hub of New England cookery, could boast only two half-hour cooking spots a week. Chicago had only two TV cooks. San Francisco, whose cooking ranks with the best in the U.S., had none. The trend was the same in other parts of the country...
...James Francis Cardinal McIntyre, Archbishop of Los Angeles, dispatched a "special statement" to the pastors of 267 churches in his archdiocese, instructing that "caution be issued to all your people, but particularly to the young" about "an obvious trend toward laxity in some of the motion picture productions-and in the advertising of them as well...
...Motion Picture Association of America, replied that while the movie industry welcomes criticism, it feels it is "doing a fine job" and does not contemplate making "concessions to anybody on anything." Johnston admitted that some recent films have portrayed excessive violence, but "there will be a different trend in films released this fall and winter...
...This trend among the concentrators, and hence the need for the theory courses, is borne out by the interests of the students themselves. Interviews reveal that some are talented performers others wish to be composers, a third group is largely composed of "Radcliffe girls who want to be artsy but don't want to work too hard...