Word: dusen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...urged them to avoid the "fleshpots" of Europe; instead, he suggested, they should travel in second-class accommodations to the cities of Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, to study conditions under the postwar inflation and observe how U.S. relief money was being spent. Van Dusen ended by setting up the entire itinerary and going along...
Seclusion & Solitude. Back in the U.S., Van Dusen was licensed by the New York Presbytery, and almost at once found himself involved in the controversy then raging between the Fundamentalists and their liberal opponents. On the ground that young Van Dusen declined to affirm the literal Biblical account of the virgin birth, a conservative-minded judicial commission of the Presbyterian General Assembly challenged the right of the Presbytery to ordain him. The issue dragged on for two years before his ordination was officially recognized, with the help of a brief in his support by a Presbyterian lawyer named John Foster...
...when Dr. Coffin became president of Union, he asked his energetic young friend to join the faculty as instructor in philosophy of religion and systematic theology. Van Dusen turned down a teaching job at Princeton to accept. He has been at Union ever since, becoming dean of students in 1931 and president on Dr. Coffin's retirement...
...square blocks of Manhattan's Morningside Heights enclosed by Union's grey Gothic buildings, Pit Van Dusen lives the fragmented and busy life of a corporation president, multiple board member, personal counselor and theologian. His day begins in his sunny, comfortable, ten-room apartment at 7:15 with a hot (then cold) shower, and ends there around midnight with a bedtime glass of ginger ale and milk. The period between is a hectic but orderly scramble of board meetings (he is a trustee of ten educational institutions, plus the Rockefeller Foundation and the General Education Board), lectures, student...
Official dinners bore him; he accepts no more than three or four such invitations a year. The nearest thing to real relaxation for Van Dusen comes in the summer, when he takes about six weeks off to spend with his wife and three college-age boys at his country place at Sorrento, Me. Even here, he spends at least three hours a day studying and writing in a remote and tiny cabin named Seclusion, where he has written most of his twelve books and countless articles. (His wife has a similar cabin. Its name: Solitude...