Word: deeded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Merit & Demerit. Is the lawyer-moralist wholly right? According to Sir Walter, he is in many ways as wrong as the psychologist. At their worst, courtroom judgments are nonmoral, stressing too much the deed and too little the doer, treating the offender simply as a nuisance that must be removed. At their best, they are sub-Christian. "They witness to a moral order which commands a deep respect. But [they miss] the supreme heights of human experience . . . for [they leave] room for no gospel and no salvation...
...Things Right." Though the "developed Christian conscience is severe towards self, [it is] compassionate towards others." In judging others, the Christian once again looks beyond the deed and fixes on the doer, "the essential man, made in God's image . . . Exact assessment of each offender's ill-desert is not in the foreground of his attention. The responsibility of which he is chiefly conscious is his own responsibility for doing something to put things right...
Last week, at a little service of dedication, Mrs. Anderson was handed the debt-free deed to a $19,000, grey-shingled, four-bedroom house and its lot. In the course of the afternoon, between 150 and 200 people dropped in to wish her well. Said she: "I regard it as a tribute to my husband, as a beautiful monument to his memory." Said St. Andrew's new pastor, Reuben Swanson: "It is an expression of the love of God in the hearts...
...until the deed was done did the shortcomings of the great experiment become clear. For all the tremendous good it had wrought, U.S. rule had recognized old Spanish land grants, many of them dubious, which gave a few favored families a stranglehold. Free trade with the U.S. had given the Philippines the bloom of apparent health, but it was a hectic flush: the islands were not prepared to stand on their own economic feet. The sugar kings and wealthy traders had prospered, but thousands of tenant farmers were left in discontented peonage. The seed of freedom had sprouted...
...before the Hill-house-West Haven High School champion game of 1947. A Hill house partisan, equipped with a liberal amount of red paint, daubed the walls of the Bowl with "Hillhouse" and "Beat West Haven." Yale's athletic director deplored the action, and said he thought that the deed had been done "by an irresponsible bunch of kids who were probably influenced by Harvard's painting in the Bowl last year...