Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Sperry, whose sixty-fifth birthday last Saturday leaves him one year short of the retirement age, became dean in 1922. He is also Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, professor of Homiletics the art of preaching, and chairman of the Beard of Preachers...
...first speeches were predictable enough. Christian Democrat Premier Alcide de Gasperi spoke firmly, if not very eloquently, for the Lateran reaffirmation his party wanted: Christ's divinity was "the crucial question ... of our positivist age. . . ." Then he descended to pragmatism with an arithmetical statement that Togliatti later turned into a trap. Out of 45,526,750 Italians, said De Gasperi, "45,349,221 are Catholics...
City Editor Lane, who had been thinking of starting a teen-age column, gave Val the job. Chicago's bobbysoxers screeched with delight. Val never preached to them ("Kids don't like that"), seldom used jive talk ("Kids don't talk like that unless they're showing off"). She simply reported the news of parties, juke-joints, new fads, new records...
...many dangers as there are comforts in true religion. As the churches cannot survive without it, so we need the churches to protect us from its untutored excesses. Happy is he who can find his religion within the ancient wisdom of a church; happy the nation! But our age, if it is to be a religious age, must be also an age of rediscovery. That will take us through much travail before we find our spiritual home...
NOVELS OF MYSTERY FROM THE VICTORIAN AGE (678 pp.)- Edited by Maurice Richardson-Duell, Sloan & Pearce...