Word: benzonia
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...Catton takes leave of the Civil War to recall his own boyhood in Benzonia, then and now a tiny town on Michigan's northwestern frontier. It is a land where life is still "easy and pleasant, with fish to be caught and clear lakes for swimming." Yet as Catton looks out his window, he can see the threatening white domes of early-warning radar installations...
Bruce Cation's father was the principal of Benzonia Academy, where cows roamed the campus. Yet obviously the older Catton was a man of some wis dom and sardonic humor. Once, after working unsuccessfully against a county election proposition allowing the sale of liquor, he was asked how he felt. "I feel like Lazarus," he said. Like Lazarus? Yes: "According to the Bible, Lazarus was licked by dogs...
...devastated Europe to the libraries of the theological schools and have carried defeatism into these sacred precincts-locking themselves up in their little cells with their egos, their textbooks, their jargon and their pessimism." Spiritual Ovaltine. Son of a lay preacher who settled in California, Kennedy was born in Benzonia, Mich. With no doubts about his calling ("I can't remember a time in my life when I wasn't sure I would become a clergyman"), he sailed through the College of the Pacific, the Pacific School of Religion, and the Hartford Theological Seminary. Ordained...
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