Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christian A. Herter, Jr. '41 and Charles Gibbons--both of whom had originally sought the nomination for Governor--unselfishly stepped forward to offer their services. After a hasty exchange of telegrams and three ballots, the State Committee picked Gibbons, who had received only 42 votes at the Convention...
...segregation statements made by the ministers of certain churches in Little Rock will make our work as Christian missionaries even more difficult...
...topple the Karami government, gave the four-man Cabinet a unanimous vote of confidence. As the news spread, street fighters and terrorists put down their arms. A delegation from Beirut's Moslem rebels even paid a courtesy coffee call on their former enemies at the headquarters of the Christian Phalange. The U.S. embassy declared the situation so improved that it was safe for American dependents to return to the country. The new Cabinet rescinded an earlier order expelling Nasser's ambassador from Beirut. The gesture reflected Lebanon's new-style neutralism -a desire to live in harmony...
...University of Texas, Union Theological Seminary, Edinburgh's New College), is nevertheless a direct and positive talker, more popular in class than in the pulpit. He has strong ideas about everything. Examples: Missions: "A Gothic cathedral would look strange on a desert, and one can be a Christian without being a westerner. A lot has been said about demythologizing Christianity; well, in missionary work it needs to be deculturized...
Activity men, Reed wrote, were "the realest expression of what Harvard means today.... They are dreamers and often poets." And so, in his undergraduate years, Jack Reed joined the Christian Association, St. Paul's Society, the Memorial Society, Debating Club, Oracle, Round Table, Dramatic Club, Symposium, Hasty Pudding--and became captain of the water polo team, Ibis of the Lampoon, Editor of the Monthly, manager of the Banjo, Glee, Guitar and Mandolin Clubs, and President of the Western and Cosmopolitan Clubs...