Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Focus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). A dramatization of Arthur Miller's novel...
...most important product of education is a constructive, consistent and compelling system of values around which personal and social life may be organized. Unless teaching and learning provide such a focus, all the particular knowledge and skills acquired are worse than useless. An 'educated' person whose information and ability are directed to no personally appropriated worthy ends is a menace to himself and to society. A highly sophisticated society educated to no coherent way of life is likewise by its very learning made the more prone to disease and degeneration...
...that of the Methodist and Baptist kind of fervent expression of religion.'' Even in churches with strong liturgical traditions-such as the Lutherans and Episcopalians-hymns placed more emphasis upon individual piety than on praise of God. In church architecture, the pulpit replaced the altar as the focus of congregational interest...
Return to Cassocks. Though the sermon still remains the focus of most Protestant services, the most notable sign of the liturgical times is restoration of Communion services to a central place in the order of worship. At the Redford Presbyterian Church in Detroit, Communion is now monthly instead of four times a year; the church is considering whether to make the service weekly. At the Travis Park Methodist Church in San Antonio, the congregation recently asked their pastor to offer Communion every Sunday, instead of once a month. Many Lutheran churches have revived the sung "German Mass," according...
Liturgy has brought significant changes to church architecture (TIME, Dec. 26, 1960). In Boston Unitarians are moving their pulpits from a central position to one side, placing the new focus on the Communion table. In Cincinnati's new Kenwood Baptist Church, a Communion table surmounted by a wooden Cross is at the center, with the pulpit off to one side. "This is unusual for Baptists," admits the pastor, the Rev. J. Stanley Mathews. "It's a move on our part to create a worship center and a dignified approach to worship." The First Baptist Church in Washington...