Word: awakening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sponser Doncaster said the law would awaken people to the need for control over the lurid editions that feed the newsstands. Patrick A. Tompkins, State Commissioner of Public Welfare, supported:". . . there is a crying need for review and restriction of the publication and distribution of such obscene and lewd publication peddled in most corner stores...
...shot in Invasion U.S.A. The other battle scenes, about half of the film, look suspiciously like World War II newsreels. The picture ends with another heavy-handed plea for increased defense measures, hammered home by an army recruiting booth in the theater lobby. Although its obvious purpose in to awaken America to the present danger, Invasion U.S.A. has more the effect of a powerful sedative...
...When a church is no longer mobile . . . when a challenge to high adventure under God fails to awaken a response in prophetic words and redemptive deeds . . . that church is dead. It is dead even should it be acclaimed as the most venerable institution of which a nation . . . can boast. For a true church must live a pilgrim life upon the road of God's unfolding purpose, keeping close to the rugged boundaries of His ever-expanding kingdom...
...appears that the present Administration has Mess-merized us into believing that a great giant is waiting to spring upon us from across Europe and the Atlantic. We may soon awaken to find this same giant breathing down the back we have turned on Asia...
...declare the area a national park? ... I admit that this solution would never come to pass, but perhaps the suggestion will awaken even President Vargas to a realization of the folly of destroying what even TIME [Sept. 8] called "one of the world's last great frontiers...