Word: christian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Konrad Adenauer's troubles might have ended had he been content to let them die down. Instead, he went out of the way to continue his feuding in a succession of interviews in the foreign press. To a Scripps-Howard reporter, he patronized U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter's performance at Geneva ("Dulles would have patched up [the Allied rifts] quicker"), opined that Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan must be persuaded that "when one belongs to an alliance, he must give up some views of his own." But he reserved the roughest treatment...
...Christian Coffee House. Blond, blue-eyed Pierre Delattre, 28, was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania (English major) and from the University of Chicago Divinity School. Four years ago he moved to Sausalito, just across the Golden Gate from San Francisco, where he wrote a novel (one of three, all unpublished), worked as a switchman on the Southern Pacific Railroad, and preached at a weekend church in Stinson Beach. After he was ordained a minister in the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern), Delattre moved to Berkeley, where he helped develop a program on religion and contemporary culture...
...Congregational Board of Home Missions, was interested in organizing the same kind of experiment. Delattre promptly applied for the job, landed it, and became a Congregationalist. "I'm not denominationally inclined," he explains. "I don't think of myself as a Protestant, but as a Christian in the primitive sense...
...rith. The souvenir film package sold briskly for 80 Israeli pounds ($37 at tourist rates) until a visitor from England made a startling discovery last week: the background music for much of the film was Sir Arthur Sullivan's fine old hymn, Onward, Christian Soldiers...
...faced officials at the Israel Motion Picture Studios, Ltd. tried to explain. Nobody working on the picture was familiar with Onward, Christian Soldiers, they said, and in casting about for background music for the film's climactic military parade in Tel Aviv, they had hit on an RCA Victor recording by Arthur Fiedler of T. M. Carter's Boston Commandery March. What they did not know was that Composer Carter had used Onward, Christian Soldiers as his motif. The studio quickly pointed out that there are some Christian soldiers in the Israeli army (said one film maker...