Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman light squad elected Mike Christian of Greenough and Framingham captain. Christian, who rows seven for the lights, was on the varsity at Noble and Greenough last year...
...Moroccans also needed other kinds of help. "They asked us constantly for books, instruction and conferences," said Dom Denis Martin, 49, who has directed the priory since its beginning. In 1954 the monastery began to serve as a meeting place for Moslem and Christian students, for French colons and Moroccan nationalists. The carefully maintained neutral ground of the priory became a bridge between widely separated social customs, religious and political beliefs. In 1955, when the sputtering hill war broke into insurrection, the Benedictines gave refuge to between 200 and 300 students...
...with the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs and a Moslem scholar, listened with a Jewish dignitary while tribesmen beat out Arab rhythms on goatskin tam-tams. "We saw that people living together for three weeks were quickly becoming friends," said Father Martin. "We learned how freely a Moslem and Christian can discuss their faiths, without any compromise on either side." The sultan himself addressed seminar members at his palace in Rabat, prophesied that his new nation would become "a place of meeting and interpenetration of all culture...
...many by his live-and-let-live attitude toward Communism, his sharply anti-U.S. attitude. His antagonist last week was U.S. Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, himself a sometime left-of-center critic of U.S. policy. The issue for which Niebuhr takes Barth to task in the pages of the Christian Century: Barth's failure to raise his voice against Russia's bloody suppression of the Hungarian people...
Buddhists are preparing for the task of propagating their faith in the West. A special college is now operating in Rangoon and a center in Colombo to train missionaries. A report of the British Missionaries Societies to the British Council of Churches last week warned Christians that "Buddhism has been roused by the recent celebration of the 2,500th anniversary of the death of the Buddha, by the meeting of the [Sixth World Buddhist] Council in Rangoon, and also by the deep fear in Asia of [nuclear] war . . . Buddhist leaders are calling Buddhists to support a world mission to save...