Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beyond these requirements, it was Hollis' "mind and will . . . that not less than one third part of the number of Students.....be of that Belief or Persuasion called Baptist, both now hereafter and alwaies." The Scholarship Committee has taken the "not less than one third part" to mean that a least four of the winners must be Baptists...
...certificate, got himself a job teaching high-school English, Latin and French. He quickly made friends with the normally reserved down-East folk; they liked his jolly ways, his eagerness to participate in North Haven affairs. He formed a Sea Scout troop, ran Sunday school at the local Baptist church with a gentle, knowing hand. At Christmastime, he rented a post-office box in the name of Santa Claus, gathered up letters from the children, wrote genial replies to each one. bought and distributed gifts for the poor. And then, one day last week, the state police came and quietly...
...Bootlegging? By this week, as the series drew to a close, Mathis' exposé was drawing three letters of protest for every letter of praise. Most influential critic of the series was the Rev. Texas Gulp, Baptist minister and peripatetic protagonist of the state's leading prohibitionist society, Dallas' Texas Alcohol Narcotics Education, Inc. Culp said that he would demand space in the Post to present the dry side of the case; critics of the series also insisted that the exposé must have been bootlegged into the paper without being checked by the publisher. Publisher...
...night runs were sporadically peppered with shotgun blasts. Then things seemed to quiet down. It was a false quiet. One night last month the stillness was shattered by a series of dynamite blasts. A bomb exploded outside the home of the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Negro pastor of the First Baptist Church, who has subordinated his own admitted ambitions for leadership to become King's strong, trusted right hand. Another bomb ripped into the home of a special object of white venom: the Rev. Robert Graetz, white pastor of the all-Negro Trinity-Lutheran Church, who has stood stoutly...
...dilemma that Camus sketched in essay form in The Myth of Sisyphus (TIME, Oct. 3, 1955) -the vision of a man in despair who can believe in damnation but not salvation. Yet in this novel there are clues of something else to come. The hero's name, Jean-Baptiste, is intriguing as a wordplay on John the Baptist, the herald of Christ's coming. The Fall is too obviously the novel of a man in mid-quest to be Camus' last word. Perhaps both book and author are best described by the late French Jesuit Pierre Rousselot...