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...Faculty of the Divinity School will probably vote next week to give financial support--and possibly sanctuary in the School's Andover Chapel--to eight students, including seven from the Divinity School, who handed in their draft cards at Arlington Street Church on October...
...ideas, and this week there will be a major interfaith symposium at the Lutheran church attached to Amsterdam's Municipal University. Also in Amsterdam, Jesuit Theologian Pieter van Kilsdonk will celebrate the anniversary by presiding over a combined prayer service for Protestants and Catholics in a college chapel dedicated to St. Ignatius Loyola-a patron saint of the Counter-Reformation...
...asked politely if the young Bowra were still at school ("I replied that I was") to the disposition of a fellow don's remains: "When Frederic Harrison died, he left us his ashes, together with those of his wife, in an urn to be placed in the chapel. After some debate it was agreed that, as he had not been a Christian, they could not go in the chapel but might go in the ante-chapel." In this book, a very private and very special world of British scholarship is not so much revealed as apostrophized...
...condition. He wrestles with sacred and profane loves, one represented by Imogen, a local beauty and culture snob who is headed for a cathedral marriage, and the other by Evie, the town crier's pretty daughter, a "secular" sexpot with eyes like black plums. For Oliver, a chapel-going apothecary's son, marriage is unthinkable with either, even when he gets Evie pregnant (or so she lets him think). It sounds like an un-American tragedy; yet Golding's story is no glum Dreiserian dirge. Eros wears a comic mask...
...leaders tended toward restraint. Some of the extreme militants, who actively oppose interracial romance, nattered a bit. Many others, such as Martin Luther King, preferred to view the match as a personal affair. "Individuals marry," said King, "not races." The Rev. James Woodruff of St. Anselm's Episcopal Chapel in Nashville, Tenn., observed: "Most people were surprised. They feel she was a pretty lucky girl to get such a promising young man. I feel that way too." At the A. Philip Randolph Institute in New York City, headquarters of the intellectual Bayard Rustin, the comment for publication was "mazel...