Word: christian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instead, he encounters the world. A power-mad dictator, Shogo, establishes a great city but it is overthrown by Blimpish invaders blasting away with gunboats and Christian hymns. This regime establishes an inner tyranny of sin and guilt, and it too collapses. At play's end a nude man, all but drowned, clambers out of a river and towels himself off-the naked ape-a genius at survival and a dunce at self-transcendence...
...everyone is trying to soothe his soul with politics or drugs these days. Christian Fellowship leaders at Harvard say that Christianity is undergoing a remarkable revival here-a revival they say is too vast to be explained solely by their own work...
Participation in the fall Christian Fellowship retreat here increased from 35 last year to 100. Meetings held by the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship (HRCF) have drawn large crowds to the Union's small dining room every Friday night. And nearly 60 students now meet daily in prayer and discussion groups to explore the meaning of Christ's teachings...
...increase in fellowship activity is reportedly widespread. Jim Mannoia of the M.I.T. fellowship said the activity of prayer groups at his school has increased "at rates that are unbelievable." Simmons Christian fellowship members say that participation in the group has tripled since last year. And the story is much the same, though less dramatic, at Boston University, Tufts, and Northcastern...
Alan L. Bean, 37, lieutenant commander U.S.N., a space rookie, is the most serious of the Apollo 12 astronauts. A devout Methodist, he carried a church banner covered with such Christian symbols as a fish and chalice aboard Yankee Clipper. At the University of Texas, which he attended on a Navy scholarship, Texas-born Bean made the wrestling and gymnastic teams and met his wife Sue, a college tumbler. Like most of the astronauts, he likes to exercise (his favorite sport: surfing in the Gulf of Mexico). Calm, self-possessed and straightforward, he trained patiently for six years...