Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hertzberg realizes that peaceful theological coexistence with the Jews-advocated by leading Christian theologians, including Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich-would be something of a revolution for traditionally proselytizing Christianity, but he thinks that practice in coexistence might be valuable. "Today," he says, "Christianity is the religion of the West and primarily of whites." But Eastern religions, once passive, are showing renewed vitality and missionary zeal. "A revived Christian evangelism reasserting its 'Great Commission' to convert, and hence to dissolve, all other faiths, will not only embarrass America before the world; it will undercut our foreign policy...
...irregularly scheduled documentary series titled Woman!, the CBS news staff asked itself a challenging question: "Is the American woman losing her femininity?" On the debatable premise that San Francisco is "a woman's city, where men are very outspoken about femininity," the network last week turned west for its answer...
...West watched with haughty interest as two Brooklyn street gangs-the Eagle Nesters and the Red Hooks-fought a battle over her charms. Nearly 50 years later, men were still at it. While Mae was touring U.S. nightclubs in 1956 with a troupe of male weight lifters, she was again an interested onlooker (or so she says in her autobiography) as one of her musclemen punched another in the jaw in a quarrel over her beldame favors...
...some, Mae West was bawdily suggestive, and her theatrical career has been beset by police raids and moralistic outcries. But to most, Mae's meanderings were enlivened and redeemed by an intuitive sense of the ridiculous and a cheerful vulgarity. F. Scott Fitzgerald found Mae the only Hollywood actress with "an ironic edge, a comic spark." British Author Hugh Walpole applauded her mockery of the "fraying morals and manners of a dreary world...
TYPEWRITER MARKET is being captured overseas by West Germans, whose rugged, low-priced machines now account for one-third of all typewriter sales. U.S. makers, who had 50% of world market before World War II, have only 10% today...