Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most impressive advocate is the "Committee for the Study of the Republic," a body formed a year ago by Christian Pineau, now Foreign Minister. The committee included outstanding jurists, government officials and many political leaders, among them Pierre Mendes-France. It found that neither changes in the electoral system nor reforms of the present system could convert France to a two-party system like Britain's or the U.S.'s. But a constitution providing the country with a strong executive elected for a four-year term was possible, and, in fact, the committee said, "the most adaptable...
Aside from the possibility that alcohol encourages expressions of love and sympathy and other Christian virtues, there are no very good moral arguments for drinking at a slightly earlier age. On the other hand, drinking is no more immoral at eighteen than at twenty-one. And there is little reason to believe that eighteen year-olds would have less self-control than a (hypothetical) inexperienced man of twenty-one. It seems strange that eighteen year-olds who drink without any observable harm in New York should acquire a more delicate constitution in Massachusetts...
James Luther Adams, a leading Unitarian scholar, will become professor of Christian Ethics. Adams is now professor of Religious Ethics in the University of Chicago and Meadville Theological School...
...Adopted a report condemning discrimination as "unfair and un-Christian...
...biweekly magazine called Christianity Today was announced for publication in October. In addition to Editor Carl F. H. Henry (professor of Christian philosophy at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif.) and Executive Editor Dr. L. Nelson Bell of Asheville, N.C., the staff will have 42 correspondents and 47 contributing editors, including Billy Graham (son-in-law of Editor Bell). With advertising of a "culturally constructive" type, the new magazine will "articulate evangelical opinion and historic Christianity" in an initial 200,000 copies...