Word: americanness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Before the O'Leary Commission, the Canadian publishers and their supporters appealed to Canada's deep reservoirs of anti-American feeling. Said a representative of the Periodical Press Association: "Canadians laugh scornfully when spokesmen of the Soviet bloc call us a U.S. satellite, but are we not in grave danger of becoming a cultural and intellectual satellite when our reading matter becomes so increasingly American?" In rebuttal, representatives of U.S. publications contested the notion that Canadian magazines were suffering unduly, noted that between 1950 and 1959 the ad revenues of Canadian magazines rose from $17 million...
...contend with the same competition from Canada's national magazines that they complain of from U.S. magazines' Canadian editions, Publisher Michael Wardell of the Fredericton, N.B. Atlantic Advocate (circ. 22,982) had flatly told the Commission: "There can be no possible justification for a general assault upon American magazines -which would be nothing short of an assault upon freedom of the press...
Pope John XXIII appointed four new cardinals last week, thereby raising the membership of the Sacred College of Cardinals to 86. Two of the new red hats go to South Americans, one to an Italian and one to an American,* Archbishop Joseph Elmer Ritter, 68, of St. Louis, Mo., one of America's most vigorous Roman Catholic orelates...
...like Menotti gone western-and gone weak. The music kept attempting to soar melodically, but kept being dashed to the ground again by its own heaviness. Still, the score had its stirring, lyrical moments, and Golden Child deserved credit at least for trying to be a serious addition to American opera, to TV and to the season...
After Jan. 1, the American Iron and Steel Institute will issue only the actual tonnage output. The institute tried doing this several years ago, but outside experts went right on making their own computations by simply comparing the actual tonnage with capacity, thus forced the institute to start releasing the capacity figure again. Now the institute has a solution for that problem. Normally, in January, it publishes the increase in capacity during the past year, a computation that is made only once a year. Next month the institute will not release a new capacity figure, thus hopes that outsiders will...