Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dozen fine performances, Penepole Laughton is outstanding as the delicate Mary Garga, who slips into prostitution after Shlink rebuffs her. Dan Morgan creates a fittingly inscrutable Shlink, and John Lasell acts as harried and erratic as a man in George Garga's situation ought to be. Vernon Blackman, Paul Benedict, and Dustin Hoffman are wonderfully snide and easy-going in the roles of Skinny, Worm, and Babson, Shlink's strongarm...
Myron G. Ehrlich, a Washington, D.C., criminal lawyer, challenges women jurors when the victim of the crime is a woman. Ehrlich's brother Jake, whose San Francisco case histories were the raw material for television's Sam Benedict series, argues exactly the opposite. When a trim little old lady turns up in court with every white hair in place, dressed in a powder-blue suit, says Jake, "I want her on that jury. She knows there's no such thing as rape." But Jake Ehrlich admits that jury picking is basically a risky proposition...
...operates in the events and movements of men, and the task of Christianity is to get where the action is, to get where the decisions are being made." So argues the Rev. Donald L. Benedict, 46, who is general director of one of the nation's liveliest and most progressive Protestant institutions: the nondenominational Chicago City Missionary Society...
Many of these programs were dreamed up by Don Benedict, a burly, energetic United Church of Christ minister who has been impresario of the society's operations since 1960. A graduate of Albion College in Michigan and Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Benedict served two penitentiary terms during World War II for failing to register for the draft. Eventually he found his ardent pacificism giving way to a conviction that the Allied cause was just, and he ended up the war as an Army sergeant on Iwo Jima. After the war, Benedict was one of the founders...
Jazz & Comedians. Not all church men approve Benedict's try-anything approach to evangelism, and a few of the society's ambitious projects have, in fact, ended in failure-notably, a citywide ministry to Chicago's teen-age gangs. But Benedict believes that Christianity stands in as great a need of reformation today as it did in Luther's time, and that the church must be willing to attempt new ways of serving the world. While technology and industrialization change the face of society, the church remains trapped in a parish structure that dates from about...