Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Park in Long Beach, she devoted only one minute to the California campaign. At one point she even seemed to be making a lefthanded plug for Republican Warren. She had always been impressed by his program. Now, she suggested mildly, "The Democratic Party and someone who has had a background in it might do a better job" of putting the program through. But by the time she had gone to a Democratic reception at the Hollywood Brown Derby, had been televised and had spoken -amid tremendous applause-to a big crowd at the Biltmore Hotel's ballroom, none could...
Accepted Fact. During her three-hour ordeal, Mrs. Mclsaac goes into ecstatic trances. Afterward she describes her visions. A Catholic priest who has investigated them terms their details accurate as to background, architecture, dress, manners and language: "In the visions of the Passion, for instance, not only does she hear the vernacular of the time and place, Aramaic, but distinguishes between dialects of this tongue. She describes the . . . Roman eagles, fasces and other objects in very simple language but in great detail...
Almost all had a religious background; in a typical group of 83 in a non-church college only three had none. Of the others, 68 were Protestants, eleven Roman Catholics and one Greek Orthodox. Yet only four of the 83 could list all of the Ten Commandments; 70 could not name the four Gospels; 74 could not describe "even approximately" what Jesus stressed as the two greatest commandments...
...heard them, liked them so well he persuaded Decca's Dave Kapp to record a couple of the Weavers' favorite songs: the Israeli Hora, Tzena, Tzena, Tzena, and the Lead Belly ballad, Good Night, Irene (TIME, Aug. 14), with Jenkins' orchestra and chorus furnishing a fancy background...
...real question remained: Had the West awakened too late? Western strategists had to lean on the hope that Russia would not dare to use her military advantage until she had more A-bombs to drop on the U.S. (see BACKGROUND FOR WAR). The strategists, who had understated Russian capabilities before, calculated that the West had approximately two years to finish the job which got under way this week high up in the Waldorf...