Word: geoffrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sometimes just to declare Christian doctrine can shock and stir bitter debate-even among Christians. Last week Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, the Archbishop of Canterbury, did just that. Asked to comment on a tract by Author Philip Toynbee (who argued that nuclear destruction was so terrible that the only solution was immediate disarmament and peace with the Russians on any terms, even surrender), the Archbishop had replied with a tart reminder that man cannot live by dread alone. Wrote the Archbishop...
...Canterbury's 700-year-old cathedral, more than 300 bishops of the Anglican Communion knelt five rows deep on a crimson carpet to receive the blessing of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Bowed under the weight of his damask robes and overshadowed by a huge silver cross, Geoffrey Francis Fisher intoned: "We humbly beseech thee that thy Holy Spirit may lead into truth thy servants the bishops gathered together in thy name. Grant them grace to think and do such things as shall most tend to thy glory and the good of thy holy church." Thus last week opened...
Alarms & Accuracy. First compiled by Burns, now head of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the indexes have been expanded and sharpened by Bureau Economist Geoffrey Moore. As with all indicators, the diffusion indexes have produced some false alarms. But the Leading Series has forecast all the postwar recessions. Last May 1957, two months before the economy reached the peak, the Leading group nosed down to signal trouble ahead. But the real warning came last August, when the composite index of all 21 areas started a fast slide...
...GEOFFREY H. RAYMOND...
...finger-wagging form, Britain's Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, defended himself from the outcry that arose when he invited (as a guest at next July's Lambeth Conference of the world's Anglican bishops) bearded Greek Orthodox Archbishop Makarios, exiled ethnarch of Cyprus. To have omitted Makarios, argued Dr. Fisher, "would inevitably have been interpreted not as an ecclesiastical but as a political action." Makarios said he would try to make it to England, but planned first to visit President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic...