Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Skeptical of the power of the pulpit. M.R.A. chiefly dramatizes its doctrines by stage and screen. Last week the latest of its simplistic message plays, Through the Garden Wall, in which feuding neighbors learn love through M.R.A., was touring Germany, drawing enthusiasm from crowds and shudders from drama critics. Thousands still flock each summer to M.R.A.'s grand rallies at its lavish headquarters at Caux, Switzerland, and Mackinac Island, Michigan; in 1962 M.R.A. opened a third and equally handsome center at Odawara, Japan. Although M.R.A. officials are vague about money and membership figures, Britain's Peter Howard, Buchman...
...team. In 1941, as the best-known and most biting political columnist in Lord Beaverbrook's stable, he was assigned to write some pieces about M.R.A. and ended up joining it. He owns and operates a model farm in East Anglia, has turned out 16 plays (including Garden Wall); the royalties from his writing, $1,120,000 in all, have gone to the cause...
Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall...
...stock market usually plunges on news of ominous or unsettling events-as it did for the Korean War, the Eisenhower heart attack, the Cuban missile crisis, the Kennedy assassination-and it usually takes days or even weeks to regain its equilibrium. Last week certainly produced enough news to unsettle Wall Street, but this time the market's reaction was different. Despite the Jenkins scandal, the Kremlin overthrow, the Chinese bomb and Labor's victory in Britain, the market dipped for only a few hours, quickly reversed direction, and by week's end had made up practically...
...fears and deprives him of a sound basis for making decisions. Usually it is the small investors who give in to instinct and drive the market down, though the normally calm professionals had a major part in the sell-off after Kennedy's assassination. Last week Wall Street blamed the public for selling again on bad news, but the public also deserved some credit for being a lot more sensible than usual in its appraisal of the situation...