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...Christ-like figure of 1960's millennium...
Social Research sees no chance of a millennium when viewers will grow to love commercials. Its only advice to advertisers: search earnestly for ways to "minimize the irritation...
German-born Johannes Kelpius was only 21 when he landed in the U.S. as leader of a company of about 40 men who came in 1694 to wait for the millennium they thought was imminent. Cultured, sensitive "Magister" Kelpius settled his little commune in the wilderness which is now a part of Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. For more than 14 years they lived together in huts and caves, praying, composing hymns and drawing inspiration from Kelpius' single-minded effort to pierce the mystery of reality...
...speakers at businessmen's luncheons. He quotes Pearl Buck on idle U.S. women: "Work is the one supreme privilege which . . . will really make them free." And Emerson at his wowserish worst: "Five minutes of today are worth as much to me as five minutes in the next millennium...
Wind & Dollars. By the time it ends (with the millennium safely postponed by Government control of the pill), Author Norris has jabbed his needle left & right, high & low, popping gas pockets all over the current scene. Targets: Soviet sentimentalism, windbaggery on Capitol Hill, the dollar chase in Big Business, journalistic scurrility on a big picture magazine...