Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Overdosed with oxygen, she became a victim of retrolental fibroplasia, which damaged the retinas of thousands of U.S. premature babies before doctors reported the cause (TIME, Sept. 28, 1953). When Pamela's father, an Internal Revenue Service regional chief, was transferred to Atlanta, Bob Hogg's group sent a special teacher to help the Coffeys avoid the debilitating kindness that can stunt a blind child's spirit even more than its physical handicap. At home, Pamela was taught to dress herself and brush her teeth, even to chew (something many children learn by watching others...
...stopped off at every gambling hell, opium den and bawdyhouse from Macao to Marseilles. Late in 1932, he joined the Royal Hong Kong Volunteers to fight the Japanese in Shanghai, deserted when the going got tough. Eventually he got to London alive, landed a job in a provincial repertory group, later a bit part in a British film...
Sunday school is mostly boring, decided a young Kansas-born Presbyterian minister named James Rayburn, and he felt that it was up to him to do something to bring the Bible alive for teenagers. In 1940 he organized a group in Dallas called Young Life. It grew slowly, gained considerable impetus as Rayburn acquired three ranches in Colorado and a bankrupt vacation resort in British Columbia known as Malibu Beach. The prospect of spending a summer week or more at one of these layouts for a nominal fee of $35 a week did wonders to stimulate the interest of potential...
...Boredom. Nub of the ministers' charge: "Young Life is. in effect, a separate teen-age church, financed and directed by adults who are not answerable to any local group. We believe its outlook is too narrow, and that its emotional effect is eventually damaging to the young people most attracted by its appeal...
...four participant composers were invited by Stravinsky to appear in the concert last summer. At first they all practiced individually; Foss, the only professional pianist in the group, worked for "only about five hours," but Sessions, who rarely performs in public, found that he had to "practice very hard." The four rehearsed with Stravinsky only three times. "He was," says Copland, "a little worried about us." But even Stravinsky was delighted with the way the performance went off, gave each composer a silver-framed, inscribed photograph as a memento. Why had the four interrupted their own busy schedules to undertake...