Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...month after the Episcopal House of Bishops censured his "irresponsibility" in matters of doctrine, Bishop James A. Pike, 53, maintained an uncharacteristic silence. "Only God knows everything," he explained at last in an Advent address in Manhattan's St. Thomas Church. "Keeping quiet at some points is a question of knowing one's place before God." Then Pike resumed his place as his church's champion of unorthodoxy: "The church seems to prefer prefab answers. But when we try to erect finalities, we fall into the worst heresy of all-idolatry...
Vicious Speech. This fall Chancellor Roger Heyns has been facing student pressures with a growing firmness. He refused to readmit Savio as a student when Savio broke rules against nonstudents distributing literature on campus. Heyns said that the students' public-address system in front of hallowed Sproul Hall disturbed classes, carried "speech that is often vicious, dishonest, laced with slander and character assassination and often charged with hatred," and proposed moving...
Disaster & Disarray. The G.O.P.'s new direction and drive prompted a dire warning last week from one of the most articulate Democrats around. Address ing New York's Democratic Forum, former J.F.K. Speechwriter Ted Sorensen said that the 1966 election had plunged the Administration party into such "disaster and disarray" that Johnson's chances for re-election have been gravely "endangered." Sounding for all the world like an oldtime Tammany ward heeler, Sorensen bewailed the fact that "the unions can no longer deliver their members; their preachers can no longer deliver the Negroes; and the ward captains...
...what the deejays call a "Golden Oldy." The vocalist: Senator Everett Dirlcsen, 70, cutting his first record album, entitled Gallant Men, Stories of the American Adventure. Backed by orchestra and chorus, Ev recites the history of the Mayflower, The Revolution and other landmarks of U.S. history, including the Gettysburg Address, which he performs as a sort of husky Bach fugue...
Most of this is tedious routine, but Tracers does not shun sly tactics. For example, to confirm that it has found Alfred Alumnus, whose last address was 1500 Shady Lane, Tracers may place a person-to-person call to William Alumnus at the suspected new address. "There's no William here; my husband is Alfred," the wife replies. Tracers' agent interrupts, tells the operator, "We're looking for the one who used to live at 1931 Shady Lane." "Oh no," says the wife, "we used to live at 1500-it's not us." But Tracers...