Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Under that kind of circumstance, it was particularly difficult for Leonard," Archibald Cox `34, Williston Professor of Law and a close friend of Leonard's, said yesterday. "His judgment and his moral strength were of enormous value. I was there--he was a person to rely on, to lean on. He managed to help both the president and to deal with the black students...
...remember this," Cox added, "because those affairs were very tense and difficult. You remember the people who were strong and helpful. Walter Leonard was particularly...
...Cox referred to "born again" as an experience rather than an institutional affiliation. But the words become conventionalized, he says. They function as a code with overtones. They are, like an evocation, symbol-suffused. As with the symbolic communion in the Catholic church, vibrations reverberate around the term, Cox says. Included in those vibrations is the question, are you serious about your religion--is it personal...
...Cox said that Hamilton Jordan, Carter's national campaign director, comes from a radical New Testament background in the South. His father, Clarence Jordan, was a radical populist and Southern Baptist, who started a farm called Koinonia (the Greek New Testament word for community) in Americas, Georgia. This farm was an inter-racial co-operative group with emphasis on pacifism...
...Cox mentions the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, another populist group in the Southern tradition from which Carter has emerged. That group was a tenant and farmer organization that the Southern Baptists and Presbyterians formed many decades ago. Cox says they were "swimming against the stream of racism" and prejudice against poor whites long before that became a popular middle class Northern cause...