Word: blakely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ball coach last week won election as general secretary of the World Council of Churches, the unity-seeking organization to which 214 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox bodies belong. Meeting at their new headquarters in Geneva, members of the World Council's central committee chose the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake (TIME cover, May 26, 1961), stated clerk of the United Presbyterian Church, to succeed Willem Visser 't Hooft, council chief since it was founded...
...Visser 't Hooft we lose a God-given architect," one council staffer commented, "and in Blake we get an energetic manager." Blake's acceptance speech suggested that he will apply his energy -he seems bountifully springy at 59 -toward keeping the council strong and influential. "I believe the World Council of Churches can continue to grow in usefulness in the coming years," he said. "But I know, too, that it can be passed...
...main obstacle to Blake's election was potential opposition from the influential delegates of Orthodox churches behind the Iron Curtain. Although Blake is well liked by the Orthodox -he led a pioneering team of U.S. church men to Moscow in 1956, and three years ago helped arrange a U.S. tour by representatives of the Russian patriarchate- the council officers feared that Russian delegates might be under governmental pressure to vote against an American. Discreetly assured that this was not so, a special nominating committee of the council then went ahead to propose Blake...
...INNOCENT EYE, by Arthur Calder-Marshall. Robert Flaherty is described in this admirable biography as the archetype of the artist-adventurer: a steel-hewed Irishman who spent the first half of his life exploring the Arctic, a Blake-like visionary who spent the second half inventing the documentary film and producing its early masterworks-Nanook of the North, Moana, Louisiana Story...
...write a script. But what his critics fail to see is that Flaherty was not so much a director as a seer. His films are the visions of the original unity of God, nature, man. They confront modern man with his primordial being. They say in fundamental images what Blake said in fundamental words: "Everything that is, is holy...