Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intellectual detective story and a fascinating photographic lecture in connoisseurship. In 1942 New York Art Dealer Piero Tozzi acquired a dirt-encrusted Renaissance statue of a boy seated on a rock. A sheepskin over one shoulder and a shell in one hand identify the youth as St. John the Baptist, and while Tozzi patiently cleaned the fragile ancient marble inch by inch, using only castile soap and a toothbrush, he began to think it might be a lost statue that Michelangelo is known to have carved in 1496. The possibility has aroused the cautious enthusiasm of a number of scholars...
...City Jungle. Lanier is one of many experiment-minded clergymen who are trying to find more effective ways of communicating the Gospel in the jungles of the deChristianized city. A descendant of his namesake the poet, and a distant cousin of Playwright Tennessee Williams, Lanier was raised as a Baptist in Florida, spent an adult decade of "militant agnosticism" before deciding, in 1950, to study for the Episcopal priesthood. After a tour of clerical duty in the Virgin Islands and at Manhattan's fashionable St. Thomas' church he became convinced that "the church in its parochial form...
...jukebox," somebody yelled, and while the music blared, 1 ,000 chanting students of Wake Forest College twisted, frugged and hully-gullied under the North Carolina sky. The scene looked like football victory celebration; actually it was bitter defiance of church authority. The Baptist State Convention, which controls Wake Forest, had just voted down a proposal to give the school greater freedom from church control. The chants were angry cries of "To hell with the Baptists," and the twisting flouted a ban on dancing as "demoralizing...
...most of its 130-year history, Wake Forest was known as "North Carolina's best high school." Since a scholarly Baptist theologian named Harold Wayland Tribble became president in 1950, the college has advanced to become a reputable small (2,900 students) liberal arts school. It offers degrees in law and medicine, gives M.A.'s in seven fields. Though all students must attend twice-weekly chapel programs and take two semesters of religion, the curriculum, the student body and the faculty are not narrowly sectarian. Fewer than half of the undergraduates and only three-fifths of the teachers...
...convention agreed, resoundingly defeated a proposal to allow nine of Wake Forest's 36 trustees to be non-Baptists and nonresidents of North Carolina. Also voted down was a proposal permitting Wake Forest and six other Baptist schools in the state to accept federal aid for construction. The results stunned Tribble, who had counted on enticing foundation support for a $69 million expansion program if the vote had gone the other...