Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started when Cinemactor Randolph Scott and a movie troupe went to Death Valley last fall to shoot scenes for The Walking Hills, and Ranger Stan was assigned as technical adviser. Between takes Stan would haul out his guitar and twang some of the songs he has composed while out on ranger trips. Scott & Co. told him he was great, that he should sell his songs in Hollywood...
Like newspapers, magazines seldom snipe at one another in print. But when Look ran a piece last Feb. 15 stating that President Roosevelt had been direly ill for several years before his death, it might have known that it was inviting a blast from the writing Roosevelts. Last week Look got the counterfire...
...such thing. Like the endless cycles of nature, the projects and enterprises of men and nations were thought to flourish and die again & again in an eternal circle of recurrences. Man's only hope, Plato taught, was to free his spirit from imprisonment in the living death of the bodily world. When the Biblical-Christian conception of history replaced this classical view, says Niebuhr, "the dynamism of Western culture was made possible." Christian teaching viewed and still views history as a meaningful interplay of God's purpose and man's free will. Armed with his new sense...
...power and pride are challenged by new social forces. Then they "face the alternative of dying because they try too desperately to live, or of achieving new life by dying to self." When the latter occurs, he claims, it establishes "the validity of the Christian doctrine of life through death for the collective, as well as for the individual organism." As an example, he cites the replacement of absolute monarchy in certain countries by constitutional monarchy. But he significantly fails to mention any example of "dying to self" on the part of a great nation...
...Virginia Theological Seminary will be able to accept only 40% of this year's close-to-200 applicants. The total number of graduates from all Episcopal seminaries in 1949 will be only 190, as against an estimated 187 clergymen who will be withdrawn during the year because of death, retirement, etc. More than on any other single factor, the Alexandria conference agreed, the future of the Episcopal Church seems to depend upon the ability of its seminaries to expand...