Word: baptists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anchor Prince. Baylor's furious fountainhead of theater is burningly scornful of academic mediocrity, preaches that "great teaching lies just short of prophecy." His own contribution to anticipating the future has been to establish at the Baptist school in Waco, Texas one of the most fertile experimental theaters in the U.S. In 1953 he startled Shakespeareans with an Othello that split the Moor into three abstractly made-up characters who represented separate aspects of the tormented hero's character. Three years later he persuaded Actor Burgess Meredith to quit his role as Sakini in Teahouse of the August...
When Henry Dunster, first president of Harvard, became convinced that the Baptist position on infant baptism was sound, he felt that he had drifted so far from Puritan orthodoxy there was only one thing to do: resign. He would have been pleased at last week's announcement of a new dean for Harvard Divinity School. Dr. Samuel Howard Miller will be the first Baptist dean in its 147-year history...
...people disapproved. "Perhaps," said Baptist Miller, "we've reached the point where these traditional divisions are no longer terribly important-and we've learned to take each other less seriously." Yet quite a few people were surprised at his appointment to succeed retiring Congregationalist Douglas Horton, 67: Harvard, with such top scholars on its faculty as Paul Tillich, Richard Niebuhr, Amos Wilder, and Britain's Christopher Dawson, had chosen a parish pastor...
Philadelphia-born Samuel Miller, 59, graduated from Colgate University, ministered to Baptist churches in Belmar, Arlington and Clifton, N.J. before becoming minister of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church in 1933. In 1955, during Harvard Divinity's $5,000,000 renaissance, Pastor Miller became Professor Miller-lecturing on pastoral theology at Harvard and the philosophy of religion at Andover-Newton Theological School...
...curate behind the ribbons at St. John the Baptist's is the Rev. Narbrough Hughes D'Aeth, 58, and three years ago he was an R.A.F. air vice-marshal, with a C.B. (Companion of the Bath) and C.B.E. (Commander Order of the British Empire) after his name. A professional fighting man with a record of service around the world and the long habit of command, he now works at the beck and call of St. John's aging and nearly blind vicar, the Rev. Andrew Nugee, must tumble out of bed to take early service when...