Word: uplifter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When you're through changing, you're through," Bruce Barton once said. There was one thing about Barton himself that never changed - his faith in spunk, selfhelp, salesmanship, sloganeering, America. That faith, given wide circulation through his uplift books, his catchy advertising copy, and his cheer fully uncomplicated politics, made Barton, son of a circuit-riding Tennessee preacher, one of the great evangelists of his day. From World War I until last week, when he died in Manhattan at 80, he remained an unspoiled and influential American optimist...
...heroes, literary or otherwise, or are very clear about what they seek in poetry. Says Mount Holyoke Poet and History Professor Peter Viereck: students "crave the ever more shocking and ever more new. They are looking more for emotional release than purely artistic merit." Verse for edification or moral uplift; he adds, "is totally dead. A poem like Tennyson's Merlin and the Gleam would be the laughingstock of a coffeehouse today...
...assisted Papadopoulos in the coup and share power with him in the new government are Brigadier General Stylianos Pattakos, 54, who as Minister of the Interior is in charge of security and moral uplift, and Colonel Nicholas Makarezos, fiftyish, who will run-or try to run-Greece's economic affairs. The triumvirate nudged into the background Lieut. General Gregorios E. Spandidakis, 57, the former army chief of staff who was recruited after the coup had already started in order to ensure top-level army cooperation. Likewise, Premier Constantine Kollias emerged as nothing more than a civilian front...
...prove economically feasible, in a public, noncommercial system; from Carnegie, he took the idea of strengthening regional program-production centers and local stations as a guarantee of diversity. "I am convinced," he said, "that a vital and self-sufficient noncommercial television system will not only instruct but inspire and uplift our people...
...father, and pushed off a cliff by a dribbling sibling, young Tumak (John Richardson) rebels and goes into the caveman business for himself. Eventually, he stumbles across the Shell people, a group in a more advanced state of civilization, as evidenced by their stone-headed spears and the pneumatic uplift of Raquel Welch's deerskin halter...