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...fame in 1948, while teaching at California's Fuller Theological Seminary, when he wrote The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism. It became the rallying point for the "New Evangelicals," who wanted to embrace orthodox doctrine while rejecting Fundamentalist excesses. From 1956 to 1968, Henry was Evangelicalism's foremost journalist and strategist, as the founding editor of Christianity Today. Since leaving the journal after a complex dispute with its board, Henry has become a freelance theologian based in Arlington, Va., and is currently the "lecturer at large" with World Vision...
Matthew S. Meselson, chairman of the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department and one of the research's foremost proponents, could not be reached for comment...
...relieved of Liddell's occasionally tedious scholarly circumspection. Both authors write clearly, although Keeley gets the laurels (as Cavafy would put it) for flowing prose and consummate organization. And, for the non-Greek speaker who has lamented the dearth of any form of scholarship on one of Greece's foremost literary figures, the appearance this fall of both works is gratifying...
...originators of rock 'n' roll, the musical from embodied many things, some gesture of cultural or political rebellion against the main-stream being crucial among them. But today, as critic Jim Miller points out, "Rock is first and foremost a member in good standing of the American entertainment industry, welcome in Las Vegas and Holl wood, on the screen and over the air, in homes and theaters...rock gossip sells newspapers; rock concerts pack stadiums; rock records dominate the radio." Not surprisingly, Rolling Stone Press is chasing in on this trend, coming out with a new, oversized (though not outrageously...
Witty, extremely popular with his fellow Congressmen, Adams is the House's foremost expert on transportation . . . Drafted and pushed through a plan for the Conrail system that subsidizes formerly unprofitable Northeastern railroads . . . Urges thorough congressional reform of airline regulation; wants carriers to be freer in setting fares . . . As Chairman of the House Budget Committee, has deftly negotiated precarious compromises between big spenders and conservatives . . . Episcopalian . . . Married, four children . . . Superb tennis player...