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...service is often necessary, suggests Episcopal Chaplain John Pyle of the University of Chicago, because "there is a general feeling of anti-institutionalism" among students. But beneath student skepticism, many campus clerics see evidence of a genuine but unformed faith. Although they encounter some convinced atheists, more often the doubter is like the University of Houston graduate student who told a Baptist chaplain that she "had hated God since she was six" because a minister told her that "God had taken" her father when he died. Now, says the Rev. DeWitt Baldwin of the University of Michigan, "the students...
...started to park her car at the Arizona State Capitol building one day in 1960, redheaded Lorna Lockwood was sternly waved away. "This space is reserved for a Supreme Court Justice," huffed the guard. Miss Justice Lockwood finally persuaded the doubter that she was in the right space. Now, four years after her election to Arizona's highest bench, Lorna Lockwood has risen again. Her Honor's four brethren have unanimously elected her the first woman state Chief Justice in U.S. history...
...burst into a stream of obscenities. Cox campaigned as an all-out backer of the League, but Wilson considered the League his personal possession and would do nothing to help Cox. He was sure Harding would lose. "You have no faith in the American people," he lectured a doubter on election day. "A great moral issue is involved." Harding won in the biggest landslide in 100 years...
...committee action came as strong doubts about the treaty were being voiced. One influential doubter was former President Dwight Eisenhower, who wrote to the committee from Gettysburg endorsing the treaty but adding one hard reservation-"that in the event of any armed aggression endangering a vital interest of the U.S., this nation would be the sole judge of the kind and type of weaponry and equipment it would employ, as well as the timing of their...
...interviews, he proved for any doubter that behind the strange and medieval obscurities of his work, there was not a simulated intelligence but a wide and eccentric one, bent on its own course. He drenched himself in the horrors of Inquisitional Spain (one of his best plays is the one-act Escurial). He was a believer in the supernatural; he considered the human senses incomplete, and he was convinced that there are sounds, colors and perfumes that man has never experienced. "To the title of intellectual, which stinks, I prefer that of artisan," he said, "which has a good smell...