Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...again be true that "a little child shall lead them"? A rousing cheer to Christian Angie Evans, who had the courage to speak up at the anti-integration meeting [TiME, Sept. 22] in Van Buren, Ark. I am a "Southern moderate" whose voice is buried under the tide of those who clamor to keep segregation. You said that we lack "moral leadership." I heartily agree. Where are those who are ready to stand up and be counted for believing that segregation is unChristian? How can those of us here in the South start a movement wherein our voices...
...rifle-slung motorcyclists and troop-filled jeeps, Major General Fuad Chehab rode to his inauguration as Lebanon's new president through a capital seething under a 48-hour curfew. In all its five-month civil war, Lebanon had never been more tense. This time it was the Christians who had erupted into new violence in protest against the abduction of a Christian journalist and backer of retiring President Camille Chamoun...
Ignoring the tension, the new President called on his countrymen to work with him for the "reestablishment of government authority" and "above all, the speedy evacuation of foreign forces." A Christian elected with Moslem support, Chehab pledged himself to uphold "the unwritten constitution." This was the 1943 compact in which Lebanon's Christian and Moslem communities agreed that Moslems would refrain from urging merger with other Arab states, Christians would hold back from aligning the country too closely with any Western power...
From the Barricades. But next day the announcement of the new Cabinet set off fresh protests from Christians and pro-Western Moslems. Chehab's choice for Premier was Rashid Karami, 37, a Moslem lawyer who led the rebel resistance in Tripoli. Chamoun's most fanatical backers vowed that they would fight rather than accept a Premier from "the barricades." From the mountain village to which he had retired, Chamoun fanned the flames with a statement: "The new Cabinet is not satisfactory to me." Members of the khaki-shirted Christian Phalange, a strong-arm outfit that has been...
...signs of the times: "The only trouble with our intellectual habit of likening our times to the . . . decadent Roman Empire and the challenge of the barbarians is that in the earlier case there was a vital, revolutionary new leaven at work . . . Whether Christianity can once again perform that function remains to be seen. To do so would require a pretty radical rebirth of Christian thought, of which I wish I could see more signs. Perhaps we may find such a rebirth in the remembrance of the Birth, that timeless fact about God which did once turn the world upside down...