Word: ellwood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...selection committee, composed of five second-year graduate students in economics, looked for innovation in teaching and clarity of presentation, David Ellwood, a member of the selection committee, said yesterday...
...Spence displays an enthusiasm in teaching and an ability to cover things in depth, to step back from the economic models and see how realistic they really are," Ellwood added...
...DIED. Ellwood A. Geiges, 82, creator of hand signals used by football referees to indicate penalties; of a stroke; in Devon, Pa. While serving as a referee at a Syracuse-Cornell game in the late 1920s, Geiges was asked by a radio broadcaster to keep the press better informed. He improvised hand signals for offside, holding, illegal shift and time out, which were later adopted by all officials...
What is the Jesus movement doing to Christianity? A staff memo for the U.S. Catholic Conference last year raised the standard objections: It tends to be simplistic, emotional, antirational, naive and, because of the leaders' authority over their young followers, "very manipulative." Robert S. Ellwood Jr. of the University of Southern California, in his new book One Way, says that the Jesus movement has only converted a hundred thousand people at most. But he thinks that it has at least held a generation of evangelical youths to their churches and made this style of Christianity a live alternative again...
...knows how many Americans are involved today with Eastern practices. One informed estimate comes from Robert S. Ellwood Jr., author of Religious and Spiritual Groups in Modern America. Ellwood believes that there are at least 500,000 members of various Eastern religious groups in the U.S., not counting the practitioners of transcendental meditation. Fellow travelers-students of yoga, readers of books on mysticism-may number several millions, he says...