Word: bloy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bulk of the contents consists of a transcript of a four-way discussion that took place in Atlanta last year. Two of the participants were black, Lawrence C. Howard and Vincent Harding; and two were white, Myron B. Bloy, Jr., and an education reporter whose identity is withheld owing to his publisher's policy...
...Peace Corps in the Philippines and as Director of the Institute of Human Relations at the University of Wisconsin, and is now Vice President of the Danforth foundation. The 38 year-old Dr. Harding is chairman of the History and Sociology Department at Spelman College; and the Rec. Bloy is Executive Director of the Church Society for College Work...
...Bloy senses "a growing understanding that the way we train faculty needs to be changed." Harding adds, "I would hope we would attack the whole pattern of accreditation.... The task is to figure out a new par, to make black institutions the major innovators." The talk proceeds to a discussion of a new kind of experimental black university. Its program, as Howard outlines it, would be "a largely off-campus experience organically rooted in black culture," would have "a comparative perspective," and place special emphasis on Latin America, Africa, and Asia. "The experiences of the outsider, of the exploited...
...Gospel as Critique. There are plenty of clergymen who stoutly defend the council's social-action stand. Episcopal Bishop Francis Bloy of Los Angeles says: "A careful study of the teachings of our blessed Lord makes it quite clear, I believe, that he expects his followers to be totally involved in the total life of the world." In December, the Lutheran Church of America sent its 7,000 ministers a pamphlet explaining the council's goals...
...MEANEST SQUIRREL I EVER MET, by Gene Zion, illustrated by Margaret Bloy Graham (Scribners ; $3), is a shy warning that there are mean squirrels in the forest too. Hero Squirrel has all his nuts stolen by M. O. (for Mean Old) Squirrel, who tries to sell them at the Squirrel Cafe, but is politely scolded, reforms and, in the end, teaches the little squirrels how to play ice hockey with a hazel...