Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half ago. That scene offered a clue to the proceedings onstage. More than any of his previous plays, or most of his poems, T. S. Eliot's The Elder Statesman extols love. Compared to The Cocktail Party and The Confidential Clerk-intellectual avocados spiky with Greek myths and Christian mysticism-Eliot's latest seems as simple as the peach that Prufrock was once afraid...
...Family planning ought to be the result of "thoughtful and prayerful Christian decision.'' The means are largely a matter of "clinical and aesthetic choice." But for Christians some means are unlawful: 1) withholding of one partner from the other without mutual consent; 2) interrupted coitus, precluding the husband's or wife's "full completion of the sexual act"; 3) induced abortion or infanticide. The bishops endorsed artificial insemination only if the husband is the donor...
...letters that Dubos wrote his family-which rebel agents smuggled into the French mails-were cheerful, and expressed the hope that the F.L.N. would ultimately exchange him for one of its own men held by the French. But then came a letter that hinted at something else. "As a Christian," wrote Dubos. "I am ready for anything fate may bring...
Theodore Alexander Gill has the lanky, bespectacled good looks that go with Hollywood's idea of a successful minister -but not the sweet disposition. As managing editor for the past two years of the nondenominational Christian Century, prickly Presbyterian Gill has told off churchmen, politicians and the public with a pungency rarely equaled in U.S. religious journalism. Last week Gill announced that he was leaving the Century to head a seminary himself-San Francisco Theological (enrollment...
...theology: Karl Earth, Emil Brunner, Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich (at the Universities of Basel and Zurich, Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary). No stranger to parish work, he has also served churches in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri and New York City. In his book-cluttered little cubicle in the Christian Century's ancient Chicago office, Editor Gill. 38. last week explained why he had decided to leave journalism for another job: "Part of the reason is my particular distortion of the Calvinistic conscience, or at least my Presbyterian version of it. Perhaps it is the feeling that...