Word: christian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Protests. Its point made, the U.S. did a backdown of a sort, too. The Pentagon plan was to establish the pattern with several flights above 10,000 ft. But Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd hove into his Washington meeting with Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter heatedly protesting that the flights might cause dangerous incidents in the touchy Berlin situation.* Although West Germany, France and Britain (but apparently not Lloyd) had been duly notified in advance of the 25,000-ft. flight, Herter promised to call off further flights until the two could sit down and talk...
...form political parties other than Franco's moribund Falange, and they already operate underground parties. In the past fortnight the black letter P has appeared on the walls of Barcelona. It stands for protesto, and was put there by Catholics who want the right to organize a public Christian Democratic Party...
...Incredible" Job. The Christian Century's drama critic, the Rev. Tom F. Driver, who also teaches Practical Theology at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, criticized MacLeish for making his play a non sequitur by jumping down from the theological discussion between God and Satan to dwell upon J.B.'s purely human sufferings...
Terrien's and Driver's academic boss, President Henry P. Van Dusen of Union Theological Seminary, took them both to task in the Christian Century for not taking into consideration the fact that the Book of Job is not one book but two-a poem with a prose introduction and conclusion on a much lower level. Since the picture of Job is not consistent in the first place, says Van Dusen, Dr. Terrien's complaint that J.B. is not faithful to the Book of Job is irrelevant. Instead of "slavish imitation" of the Biblical Job, "Mr. MacLeish...
Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Acting Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, and Central Intelligence Chief Allen W. Dulles, the ailing secretary's brother, met him at the airport when his plane arrived...