Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Face to Face. The resolution made no direct reference to a summit meeting with Russia, but the implication was clear in the words: There can be "no substitute for personal encounter in the pursuit of human understanding . . . When men who profess the Christian religion make no adequate provision for a face-to-face encounter with their enemies, they betray the religion which they profess...
...English department and finishing a Ph.D. thesis on Novelist William Faulkner, describes the change they put into effect: "In the past, if a monk went to a university, it was thought he would come back less a monk. Now we believe that a man is less a Christian for ignoring his education...
...usually divided: the board's selection of a skilled administrator in onetime Executive Vice President Ernest W. Kuebler, 54, met opposition from those who wanted a representative of the more spiritual side of Unitarianism-especially in view of recent hot debates over whether Unitarians should break with the Christian tradition...
...choice of the spiritually minded, 823 to 720, was tall Dana McLean Greeley, 49, minister of Boston's Arlington Street Church. Said President-elect Greeley: "I have never wished to sunder Unitarianism from Protestantism or Christianity, but I am eager to have it serve as a bridge between the Christian and non-Christian worlds, and I am as ready for it to cultivate close relationships wherever opportunity affords with other great faiths, or lesser faiths, as with Christianity...
...capable of such feats as shooting a bow while standing on a bare-backed horse. A dancing piper with an exaggerated phallus indicates the celebration of orgiastic rites; farmers arrive with lambs for sacrifice and bearing bowls of barley meal for offerings. Most moving of all is a pre-Christian madonna and child, probably yet another appearance of the fertility and mother goddess who held sway throughout the Mediterranean...