Word: welled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fiction, fact and fun. A typical evening's fare last week offered song (Perry Como Show) and adventure (R.C.M.P., a realistic serial on the Mounties, which cartoonists are fond of lampooning), but gave equal time to Live a Borrowed Life, a sprightly historical quiz, and Explorations, a well-filmed exposition of the odd migration habits of animals, birds and fish...
...Gomorrah, are in no mood for compromise. Even if rabidly segregationist Governor S. Ernest Vandiver wished to ease matters, he left himself no room last week. Said he: "The people of Georgia overwhelmingly elected me Governor on a platform that, among other things, made my views on school segregation well known, clear and unmistakable. Those views have not changed...
...minister's role on "the healing team," stressing the relation of religion to a patient's health. Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clergymen lectured to the medical students on the details of their faiths so that the future doctors might collaborate in aiding the spiritual as well as the mental and physical health of their patients. The following year a course was added for ministerial graduate students in which they study medicine, psychology, psychiatry, sociology, watch operations, and spend five to seven hours a day as chaplain-interns, counseling the sick and their families under strict supervision...
This bloody, teeming struggle upwards -"despite all the waste and ferocity, all the mystery and scandal it involves"-is a single gigantic organism moving in one direction: toward more consciousness. But evolution does not stop with consciousness. "In one well-marked region at the heart of the mammals, where the most powerful brains ever made by nature are to be found . . . a flame bursts forth at a strictly localized point. Thought is born...
...Federal Communications Commission was set up to look after the public interest as affected by the broadcasting business, how could all those rivers of payola flood the land without provoking so much as a "tut, tut" from the commissioners? Scoring the FCC (and the Federal Trade Commission as well), the New York Herald Tribune's Washington Columnist Roscoe Drummond wrote: "They were supposed to be watching, and it wasn't until after they began to be scorched by public opinion that they showed any evidence that they thought they had much to do about it." As FCC finally...