Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years at Baylor University. Drama Professor Paul Baker turned the Texas Baptist school into a renowned center of experimental theater. The Waco wizard's 1953 Othello split the tortured Moor into three separate characters; later he got Actor Burgess Meredith to be anchor prince in a three-faceted Hamlet. To train graduate students, in 1959 he opened a stunning repertory theater in Dallas, the only theater designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. In baffled admiration, the late Charles Laughton once called Baker "crude, irritating, arrogant, nuts and a genius...
...Stake in Space. Southern Baptist Beck, who was a World War II B-29 pilot and joined Ford in 1949 as a financial analyst, makes all day-to-day decisions on his own, deferring to Detroit only on major policy matters. He describes himself as "a road-map man," has charted a route to bring Philco to better things within the next five years. Though the figures are buried within Ford's annual report, Philco probably underwent a slight sales dip last year to about $375 million, made no profit. Wealthy Ford is obviously more interested in Philco...
Mountains of Ice. Garrison was born in Newburyport, Mass., in 1805, the second son of a Baptist mother and ne'er-do-well father. He early felt the call to serve God and humanity. At 13, he was hired by a newspaper, and before long he was writing editorials denouncing the sins of the world. "Slowly the young man was mastering the difficult art of avoiding argument," writes Thomas. "He simply was not happy with ideas." But he occasionally was moved to verse...
Littered House. Among his constituents or at his red-brick home in Hampstead Garden Suburb, Wilson is affable, easygoing and well-liked. His wife Mary, the daughter of a Baptist minister, writes poetry and is active in her local church; his two sons, Robin. 19, and Giles, 14, litter the house with sports gear and mackintoshes. But in the House of Com mons, the reaction to Wilson is generally one of uneasy suspicion, and he is frequently accused of being "slippery." As the Economist put it last week, "On the big things-defense, the American alliance, East-West, the need...
...POAU. Last week in Denver, at its 15th annual POAU-wow on church and state, the 2000,000-member organization concluded once again that Roman Catholic clericalism wants to smash big holes in the wall between religion and government in the U.S. But it also heard one good Baptist suggest that Pope John XXIII may have made POAU's traditional pugnacity a little obsolete...