Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hodges, 45, was sheriff of Denton County (pop. 41,365), Texas for only four years, but he died last week a famous man. Before taking office, Hodges was just an ordinary sort of fellow; he grew up in a little cow town named Aubrey, spent a year at Texas Christian University, got a Depression job as a cop in the county seat, went to war as a coast guardsman, came home and started running for sheriff. He made it the second time...
...There is an anti-intellectualism widespread in America which tends to blur all distinctions except that of white and black . . . There is an attack, financially well supported, against our churches . . . The only source of this I will identify by name is that of the American Council of Christian Churches (see below), which can no longer be ignored when its lies and calumnies are picked up and used by Government agencies and others in this attack...
...education for privacy . . . there is equally urgent need for ... the establishment and maintenance of moral harmony. From the days of primitive religion, through Greek tragedy, the Christian epic of sin and salvation, and modern psychology . . . there runs the theme of the un easy conscience. The dramatic specter of moral guilt is the principal character in many of the greatest creations of literary genius. No matter what the learned explanation, the psychological state is one of inner moral disharmony ... It is a private affliction and must be cured privately ... A vision of the good life the spirit must have; for devoid...
...idea behind Pro Deo is to combine a thorough background in Christian philosophy with training in what Father Morlion calls the "new social professions" -journalism, the movies, business administration, labor relations. By concentrating on these, Father Morlion thinks, the university will be influencing the most active managers and molders of the future. As undergraduates, students move on from philosophy to economics, labor, and political science, can later specialize in their chosen careers. Their work is anything but orthodox: cinema students actually help shoot Italian films; journalists work as legmen for Rome reporters...
...those who get past that printed plea find that Grandma's main interest, now as ever, is people. Recently a visitor asked the radiant little old lady of what she was proudest after her 93 years of life and labor. The answer could not have been more Christian, or more grandmotherly: "I've helped some people...