Word: brooklyn
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Preaching & Picketing. Berrigan, who was born in Two Harbors, Minn., and raised in Syracuse, has a considerable reputation as a skillful lyric poet. He taught English and Latin at Brooklyn Prep and theology at the Jesuits' Le Moyne College in Syracuse, where one of his students in 1963 was David Miller, the arrested draft-card burner. Since 1964 he has been an associate editor of Jesuit Missions magazine, a pleasant job that gives him plenty of time to travel and write...
...reciting more of the Mass in English than the council's liturgical reforms currently permit. A pacifist, he is a sponsor of the Catholic Peace Fellowship. Last October he joined Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel, the leading theologian of Conservative Judaism, and Lutheran Pastor Richard John Neuhaus of Brooklyn, as a co-chairman of Clergy Concerned, whose aim is to question the morality of U.S. action in the Viet Nam war. He is not alone in suffering curbs from the head of the Jesuits' New York Province. Two other members of the society-Fathers Francis Keating and Daniel Kilfoyle...
...when he batted .182 and permitted the Washington Senators to steal 13 bases in one game. That was enough to convince Rickey that his talents were better suited to the front office. Over the next 50-odd years, with the St. Louis Browns, the St. Louis Cardinals, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Pittsburgh Pirates, he established himself as "the Mahatma," "the Brain," the brightest innovator, shrewdest trader and smartest judge of talent in the history of baseball...
Think as One. At Brooklyn in 1947, Rickey broke baseball's long-established color line, hiring Jackie Robinson as the major leagues' first Negro ballplayer. Rickey always insisted that his motives were practical, not social: "I don't care whether a man has green stripes and hair all over, as long as he can play the game." But he made no secret of his personal feelings about racial prejudice. "We will never think as a nation," he said, "until the entire nation is permitted to think...
Alfred called the new work, entitled Hogan, a "pro-sequel" to his present off-Broadway hit. It will deal with events reading up to an Irishman's immigration to Brooklyn...