Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggestion that the French pay more attention to the old military axiom: take the high ground. The President went on to recall a remark he made to a visiting Frenchman-presumably General Paul Ely, Chief of Staff of the French Armed Forces: if he-Ike-were in command, Colonel Christian de Castries, commander of the Dienbienphu defenders (see FOREIGN NEWS), would have been a general day before yesterday. More than admiration for De Castries was contained in this. The President's easy observation was a reflection of the U.S. military view that engagements as important as Dienbienphu call...
Last week, reviewing the year, battle-worn old (73) Bishop Otto Dibelius told his 120-man Evangelical Church Synod, which represents East and West German Protestantism, that the sweetness had turned sour and the light was all but gone. Pressure on Christian students has begun again, surveillance of pastors and their services has been increased, and church collections have been prohibited...
...when the minister sees the Christian world view penetrating an immediately relevant human situation," he writes, "that a sermon is born." Cleland finds his "relevant human situations" wherever he happens to be; his sermons to Duke students are likely to take off from yesterday's classroom, last night's fraternity dance or Saturday's basketball game. They are peppered with anecdotes, delivered with fine timing...
...byproducts; the real job is witness. In that he has his joy. He sows as well as he can; maybe God will give the increase; that is His responsibility. Thus he works with the strain off. It is sometimes wise to remember that there is such a thing as Christian nonchalance. Maybe there is room for a new beatitude: 'Blessed are the debonair,' in whom the Word of God sparkles with graciousness and charm...
Auer has been particularly interested in the cultural relations between the Netherlands and the United States. Thomson has done extensive research in the early development of the Muslim World and Eastern Christian Mysticism...