Word: abingdon
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Where are the blithe and jocund to ted the hay? Where are the free folk of England? Where are they? Ask of the Abingdon bus with full load creeping Down into denser suburbs . . . Ask at the fish and chips in the Market Square...
...churchmen are enamored of the present passion for radical pronouncement. In a new book called Who Speaks for the Church? (Abingdon Press), Methodist Moral Theologian Paul Ramsey offers a thoughtful critique of the trend to neglect basic ethical ana ysis in favor of particular pronouncements on policy. No fundamentalist, Ramsey is a professor of ethics at Princeton and an ecumenical-minded writer on contemporary Christian problems. Nonetheless, he contends that the "social action curia" of the World and National Councils of Churches has re duced ecumenical ethics to a partisan political movement...
...having been poets laureate of England, a tradition that goes back 350 years. According to the 17th and most recent laureate, John Masefield, this high post "is responsible for some of the world's worst literature." Masefield died last week at 88 at the country home in Abingdon where he spent most of his time. Fortunately, he had written much of his best poetry long before George V named him laureate in 1930 (in preference to his chief rival, Rudyard Kipling). Already safe from obscurity, Masefield thus turned out only occasionally the dutiful doggerel that has so often been...
Died. John Masefield, 88, Britain's Poet Laureate since 1930; in Abingdon, England (see THE WORLD...
...pris on letters, Gogarten worked out a full and coherent the ology of secularization in half a dozen postwar books, five of which are being translated into English. Just published in the U.S. is the first major critical study of Gogarten's the ology, The Secularization of History (Abingdon; $5), by Dr. Larry Shiner of Iowa's Cornell College...