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Humanistic Theology? A conservative minority disagrees. The Dowey committee's proposals "will in effect replace every distinguishing doctrine of the Reformed faith with humanistically influenced theology," charges The Rev. G. Aiken Taylor, editor of the Presbyterian Journal. The nondenominational, fortnightly Christianity Today says that the changes will "legitimize contemporary church practices that violate the Westminster Standards, including the hierarchy's mounting involvement in politico-social activity...
...highly regarded of U.S. literary awards. Since 1948, when a distinguished jury stirred a furor by awarding the initial prize to Ezra Pound,* the list of Bollingen winners has amounted to a virtual roll call of U.S. poetic merit. Among them: Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden, Conrad Aiken, William Carlos Williams, Theodore Roethke. After the 1962 award to Robert Frost, the frequency of the prize was cut to every two years, but the prize money doubled to $5,000. Now the first poet to win the enriched Bollingen has been announced: the relatively unknown Horace Gregory...
...have mutual security agreements with 42 countries, and if we were called upon to honor several of them at once, we'd be in a pretty precarious situation," declares Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. The G.O.P.'s George Aiken complains: "We're trying to police the world...
...battle against the Communists should go better. In addition, Rusk noted that there are no present U.S. plans for escalating the war into North Viet Nam, nor is there any thought of the U.S.'s withdrawing from the fight. "An un inspired forenoon," grumped Vermont Republican George Aiken about the session...
...foreign-aid bill passed by the House does not require a disclaimer. But the $3.3 billion Senate version does. And the 13-man conference committee trying to reach a compromise includes Sen. George D. Aiken (R-Vt.), who proposed the disclaimer last Tuesday...