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...greatest living Protestant theologian retired from his professorship at the University of Basel last year, presumably with nothing to do but listen to Mozart records and finish the 13th volume of his masterwork, Church Dogmatics. But at the age of 77, Karl Barth (TIME cover, April 20, 1962) has found himself so busy that he wonders if he will ever finish the book at all. Two evenings a week he holds a trilingual "colloquia" with divinity students in the nearby Bruderholz Restaurant. He keeps up a worldwide correspondence, dutifully reads theses mailed in by budding theologians for his approval...
...Crimson was handed many friendly assists as the Bears lost the ball eighteen times by their sloppy floor play. The Harvard defence held well throughout the game, forcing the Bruins to shoot from the outside, and containing the Brown captain Gene Barth to only 13 points...
Brown managed to eke out a one-point victory earlier in the season, but the varsity should be able to take the Bears tonight. The only real threat Brown owns is their captain, Gene Barth, who is averaging 17.6 points a game and ranks third in the Ivy League. Barth hit 27 points in the last Harvard game, scoring again and again with his deadly set shot. If Harvard's coach Floyd Wilson took his team out of a zone defense as he did against Princeton, the Crimson would probably have an easier time defeating the Bears...
...Barth, Bultmann, Bonhoeffer. The familiar names of contemporary theology-Tillich, Barth. the two Niebuhrs-remain the intellectual staples of the seminaries, but some students feel that there is not enough communication between U.S. and European theologians, and Robert B. Shepard Jr., 27, a senior at Southern California School of Theology, complains of "a serious lag in American theological thought...
...Barth and Nell, shooting from outside the key and near the sidelines, continued to throw the Varsity's zone defense off balance in the second half - scoring 47 points between them. The 6 ft. 7 in. Barth missed only 2 of 13 shots from the floor all night and finished with a 27 point total...