Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...university should not be the conserver of society, they argue, but the fountain of reform. They believe that students should be not merely preparing to enter the active world but a force within it. Many of them have a fashionable disaffection for organized religion, but they express the Judaeo-Christian belief that one man should act where he is, and that if he does so, he can help to change the world...
...automobile is clearly an instrument of destruction, if not outright murder (worldwide, automobiles kill 200,000 persons a year). By Freudian analysis, it is the supreme expression of aggression in an increasingly depersonalized society. Under these circumstances, driving a car should be an urgent matter of concern for Christian moralists, contends France's Abbe Hubert Renard, and in a 306-page book entitled The Automobilist and Christian Morality, he attempts to fashion a schema of ethical principles for the Christian driver...
...time of her husband's death, Mrs. King was unaware of his plans to speak at Harvard, according to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference office in Atlanta, King was president of SCLC...
...question that the multimedia sermon is the coming thing," said the Rev. Edward Theisen of Milwaukee. "To appeal to the whole man, which multimedia purports to do, provides an answer." But many of the preaching experts were decidedly cool. Some questioned whether audiovisual imagery can actually say more about Christian faith than an inspired verbal sermon. Still others felt that Schillaci's superhip technique was a lot more appropriate to a college campus than an urban congregation...
Most of the gossip concerns Piet Hanema, redhaired, stocky, 35-year-old father of two girls, housebuilder and restorer, a man "in love with snug, right-angled things." He is at once the sturdiest and the most pathetic character in Couples, a quasi-Christian and would-be family pillar who finds real joy in such things as "the children's choir's singing, an unsteady theft of melody." His adventures in adultery are an almost accidental byproduct of his own spiritual confusion, his wife's complicated sexual indifference and the irresistible why-not willingness of the women...