Word: christianly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this tidal wave, many a figure from the past was swept away. The Socialists, hitherto France's biggest non-Communist party, lost a staggering 55 seats (from 95 down to 40). Among defeated Socialists were ex-Premier Paul Ramadier, Christian Pineau, Robert Lacoste and Jules Moch. The Radical Party, a dominant force in French politics since 1875, saw four of its ex-Premiers (Pierre Mendés-France, Daladier, Edgar Faure and Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury) go down to defeat. Also consigned to political oblivion: rabble-rousing near-fascist Pierre Poujade...
...Martin Emil Marty, 30, minister of the Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit in suburban Elk Grove Village, Ill., characterizes his life as "typically grey flannel: station wagon, barbecue pit, and all that goes with it." Nebraska-born "Marty" Marty is also an associate editor of the nondenominational Christian Century, and in last week's issue he winds up a six-installment series on religion in America that, clotted though it is with the fashionable jargon of the social analysts, is a perceptive young man's view of what he seems to regard as grey-flannel faith...
...Marty sees hope in the local parish, with its possibilities of maintaining the values of personality against mass society. "If the parish can be relieved of many pressures which it cannot sustain, it offers the most hopeful front for taking post-Protestant America and helping shape it as newly Christian America. It must be informed from the theological centers as it is not at present. As denominations and parishes 'take upon themselves the form of the servant' and . . . sacrificial living ... we shall see the liberation of God, the repersonalization of man, the judgment of a proud society...
...added that he favored courses in Christian culture as long as they are not compulsory and "a belief in God is not necessary for a passing grade...
...United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa last night awarded its 1958 Christian Gauss Prize to Cedric H. Whitman '38, associate professor of Greek and Latin...